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Bitcoin Crashes To $105,000, Sentiment Sinks Into Extreme Fear

The cryptocurrency Fear & Greed Index has plummeted into the extreme fear territory following the crash in Bitcoin and other ￰0￱ Fear & Greed Index Is Now Pointing At “Extreme Fear” The “Fear & Greed Index” is an indicator created by Alternative that uses the data of several factors to determine the net sentiment present among traders in the Bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency ￰1￱ factors in question include volatility, trading volume, market cap dominance, social media sentiment, and Google ￰2￱ index makes use of a scale running from 0-100 for representing the investor ￰3￱ values above 53 imply the traders are greedy, while those below 47 suggest a fearful ￰4￱ lying between the two cutoffs correspond to a net neutral ￰5￱ Reading: Next Dogecoin Stop Could Be $0.33 If This Level Holds, Analyst Says Besides these three main sentiments, there are also two “extreme” zones called the extreme fear (below 25) and extreme greed (above 75).

Currently, the market is in the former of the ￰6￱ displayed above, the Fear & Greed Index has a value of 22 at the moment, which is just inside the extreme fear ￰7￱ is a deterioration compared to the last few days, when the indicator held normal fear ￰8￱ reason behind the slide into the extreme fear territory naturally lies in the bearish action that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have faced ￰9￱ particular, the market has suffered a sharp move down during the past ￰10￱ week also ended with a rapid drawdown in BTC and company, and then too sentiment took a large hit, with the index registering a low of ￰11￱ previous turnaround in sentiment was also much more drastic than the latest one, as it took the metric from greed values all the way down into the extreme fear zone in a flash.

Historically, the extreme sentiments have held much importance for Bitcoin and other digital assets, as major tops and bottoms have often occurred in these ￰12￱ relationship has been an inverse one, however, meaning that extreme fear can result in a bottom, while extreme greed can lead to a ￰13￱ Reading: Bitcoin Back Under $111,000 As Key Holders Shed 17,500 BTC The plunge into extreme fear earlier also paved the way to a bottom, although it proved to be only a temporary ￰14￱ the Fear & Greed Index back in the zone, it will be interesting to see how the Bitcoin price will develop in the coming ￰15￱ Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $105,600, down 13% over the last ￰16￱ image from Dall-E, Alternative.

me, chart from ￰17￱

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