fear-and-greed

What This Skill Does

The fear-and-greed skill provides the OpenClaw agent with direct, programmatic access to the Alternative.me Crypto Fear & Greed Index. This tool quantifies retail investor sentiment into a single metric, ranging from 0 (Extreme Fear) to 100 (Extreme Greed). By retrieving this data, the agent can understand the psychological state of the market, helping to differentiate between panic-driven sell-offs and euphoria-driven market tops. The skill interfaces directly with the official Alternative.me API, ensuring that the agent receives reliable, daily-updated market sentiment markers without requiring any API keys or configuration.

Installation

To integrate this sentiment engine into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following installation command in your terminal or command interface:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/arielcaba-dev/fear-and-greed-index

Once installed, the agent will have the internal capability to query the current index value and interpret its significance during market analysis tasks.

Use Cases

This skill is an essential baseline tool for any agent performing market research. Common applications include:

1. Sentiment Anchoring: Use the index as a starting point before analyzing complex news sentiment. It provides the "macro" retail temperature.
2. Risk Assessment: If the agent is evaluating a trade or long-term position, it can automatically check the index. High greed scores can trigger a warning about potential correction risks.
3. Contrarian Signaling: Assist in identifying potential buy-the-dip opportunities during periods of Extreme Fear, or cautioning against FOMO when the index enters Extreme Greed territory.
4. Contextual Reporting: When generating daily market summaries, the agent can include the sentiment score to provide a clearer narrative of why price action is behaving in a specific manner.

Example Prompts

1. "What is the current crypto market sentiment, and what does it suggest about our current risk exposure?"
2. "Check the Fear & Greed index. If the market is in Extreme Fear, find recent news headlines that might be driving this panic."
3. "Summarize the current market sentiment index and advise whether it is a good time to enter a position based on the 0-100 score."

Tips & Limitations

• Daily Updates: The index only updates once per day. Do not use this as a high-frequency trading signal; it is intended for macro-sentiment analysis.
• Retail Focused: This index reflects retail sentiment and does not necessarily represent the positioning of large institutional players or high-frequency trading desks.
• Confirmation Bias: Always use this as one factor among many. Never base high-stakes financial decisions solely on a sentiment score; use it to augment, not replace, fundamental or technical analysis.