When people see big green candles, greed takes over inexperienced and emotional market participants, leading to FOMO and impulsive buying at the peak. This works the other way around too: when people see sharp downward movements, they feel fear and sell their positions at significant losses. In this post, we will look at a popular index that helps assess these very emotions. The Fear and Greed Index was created to evaluate which sentiments are prevailing in the market at the moment. The index...