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MOODMarket Mood

MOOD How scared or greedy the US stock market is, as one number from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed), as of the latest close. A gauge, the reading a day, a week, a month and a year back, the seven measures behind it, and its history.

how to open

Type it into the palette

  • MOODOpens Market Mood.

Typed into the command palette — ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) or the ` key. All keyboard shortcuts →

what's inside

What the window holds

The reading

  • A gauge from 0 to 100 with the day’s number and its zone: Extreme fear (0–24), Fear (25–44), Neutral (45–55), Greed (56–75) or Extreme greed (76–100)
  • The reading at the last close, a week ago, a month ago and a year ago, each with its zone
  • A history chart over 1 month, 6 months, 1 year or everything; move along it to read any day

The seven measures

  • Is the market going up? How far the S&P 500 sits above or below its 125-day average
  • Are stocks hitting highs or lows? S&P 500 stocks at a 52-week high, less those at a 52-week low
  • Is the buying broad? Volume in rising S&P 500 stocks against falling ones, added up over time
  • Are traders buying protection? The VIX against the 3-month VIX, averaged over five days
  • How jumpy is the market? The VIX against its 50-day average
  • Are people running to safety? Stocks’ 20-day return less Treasury bonds’
  • Will investors take risky debt? High-yield corporate bonds’ 20-day return less Treasury bonds’ of a similar length

where the data comes from

Provenance

Worked out each weekday evening after the close; the panel checks for a new reading every ~10 min. About our data sources →

good to know

Worth knowing

  • Each measure is ranked against its own past year: a score of 44 means the day’s reading was higher than 44% of the trading days before it. Measures where a high reading means fear, like the VIX, are flipped. The seven count equally.
  • It is WiseView’s own measure. Other fear and greed indexes use their own recipes, so the numbers will not match exactly.
  • The same reading is in WiseView MCP (get_market_mood) and the member API (/v1/market/mood), so your own AI or code can read it too.

MOOD faq

Questions

Why doesn’t it move during the day?
It is worked out from closing prices once each weekday evening, so it describes the market as of the last close. The panel says which close at the top.
Why does a measure show a dash?
One of the prices it needs did not arrive for that day. Market Mood is then the average of the measures that did, as long as at least five of the seven have a score.
Is it a signal to buy or sell?
No. It describes how investors are behaving as of the last close, not where prices go next, and it can stay at either end for weeks.

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