Alerts are useful when you only care about rare conditions (near extremes) and want to avoid checking charts all day. The goal is simple: get notified when sentiment enters your “review zone”, then make a calm decision with your plan—rather than reacting to every fluctuation.
Step 1: pick a market
Fear & Greed Alert supports:
- Stocks (CNN Fear & Greed Index)
- Crypto (Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index)
- Gold (sentiment proxy)
Choose the market you actually trade or invest in. Don’t mix signals across assets unless you have a reason.
Step 2: choose thresholds (simple ideas)
There is no universal “best” threshold. Use the ones that match your horizon and temperament.
Conservative (fewer alerts)
- Fear: ≤ 20–25 (only when fear is very high)
- Greed: ≥ 75–80 (only when greed is very high)
Moderate (more alerts)
- Fear: ≤ 30–35
- Greed: ≥ 65–70
Rule of thumb: start conservative. If you get too many alerts, widen the bands. If you never get alerts, narrow them slightly.
Step 3: decide what you do when an alert arrives
An alert should not be an order to trade. Pre-commit a small checklist. Example:
- What’s my time horizon (weeks vs years)?
- Is the trend regime up, down, or sideways?
- Do I already have a planned buy/sell level?
- What’s my max loss / stop / position size rule?
If you can’t answer those in 2 minutes, the right action is usually “do nothing”.
Step 4: set the alert (takes 30 seconds)
- Open the homepage.
- Enter your email.
- Select market.
- Enter fear and/or greed threshold.
- Subscribe.
How we avoid spamming you
Alerts are sent once when the index enters a trigger zone, and reset when it returns to neutral—so you don’t get repeated emails every time the index prints the same range.
FAQ
Should I set both fear and greed thresholds?
Only if you have a plan for both. Otherwise set one threshold and keep it simple.
Can I use the same thresholds for all markets?
Not always. Crypto sentiment often swings faster than stocks; consider wider bands if you find yourself reacting too frequently.