Gold Mood vs gold price
How our Gold Fear and Greed Index and the gold price have moved together, and where they have not. Hover or tap the chart to read any day.
Gold close (right axis)Fear and greed index (left axis)Divergence: price and index moved in opposite directions over five sessions
Notable readings
- Lowest reading of the last 90 sessions: 19.8 on 24 Jun 2026.
- Highest reading of the last 90 sessions: 70.2 on 21 Aug 2026.
- Largest one-day change in the index in our history: -11.8 points on 28 Sep 2026.
- On 22 Oct 2026 the index moved from Neutral to Fear (46.2 to 37.3).
- On 21 Oct 2026 the index moved from Fear to Neutral (42.5 to 46.2).
- On 23 Sep 2026 the index moved from Neutral to Fear (46.4 to 42.2).
- Largest divergence in the last 90 sessions: from 13 Oct 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, gold moved -0.8% while the index moved +4.8 points.
Checked against the full history we hold, 119 sessions from 11 May 2026 to 28 Oct 2026. We call something the lowest or largest only within that window, never as an all-time record.
How divergences are flagged
A divergence is a five-session window in which gold's price moved at least 0.8% one way while the index moved at least 3 points the other way. It is a description of what happened, not a signal.
Educational information, not financial advice. Past readings do not predict future prices.