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Market Mood

GET/v1/market/mood

How scared or greedy the US stock market is, from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed), as of the latest close. Seven measures — momentum, 52-week highs against lows, the breadth of buying, demand for protection, volatility, the run to safety and the appetite for risky debt — are each ranked against their own past year and averaged. Returns the day's reading and zone, each measure's score, the reading at the last close, a week, a month and a year back, and the daily history. Worked out once each weekday evening; WiseView's own measure, so it will not match other fear and greed indexes exactly.

Each call counts against your allowance.

Parameters

NameInTypeWhat it does
daysquerywhole number, 1–1300How many trading days of history, ending on the latest. Leave it out for 30.

Any other parameter is refused, so a typo is caught rather than quietly ignored.

Answer

The answer is { data, asOf }. Here is data, abridged: real answers carry more fields.

data (abridged)
{
  "date": "2026-11-04",
  "score": 38,
  "zone": "fear",
  "label": "Fear",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "momentum",
      "question": "Is the market going up?",
      "measure": "How far the S&P 500 sits above or below its 125-day average.",
      "score": 44,
      "zone": "fear"
    },
    {
      "id": "options",
      "question": "Are traders buying protection?",
      "measure": "The VIX against the 3-month VIX, averaged over 5 days.",
      "score": 28,
      "zone": "fear"
    }
  ],
  "compare": {
    "previousClose": {
      "date": "2026-11-03",
      "score": 41,
      "zone": "fear",
      "label": "Fear"
    },
    "weekAgo": {
      "date": "2026-10-28",
      "score": 52,
      "zone": "neutral",
      "label": "Neutral"
    },
    "monthAgo": {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "score": 63,
      "zone": "greed",
      "label": "Greed"
    },
    "yearAgo": {
      "date": "2025-11-04",
      "score": 71,
      "zone": "greed",
      "label": "Greed"
    }
  },
  "history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-03",
      "score": 41
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-04",
      "score": 38
    }
  ],
  "builtAt": "2026-11-05T02:00:41.000Z"
}

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