I Built a Divergence Detector Between Fear & Greed and BTC Price. The Current Signal Is Rare.

Four straight days of declining Fear & Greed. 11, 11, 10, 10. Meanwhile BTC casually floated from $70,200 to $71,337. That's a positive price move into deepening fear. If you've been around markets long enough, you know that when sentiment and price disagree, one of them corrects. The question is which one. I got tired of eyeballing this manually so I built a thing. Why Divergence Matters More Than Either Metric Alone Most people treat Fear & Greed as a buy/sell signal. It's not. A reading of 10 doesn't mean "buy now" any more than a reading of 90 means "sell now." What actually produces actionable information is the relationship between sentiment and price over a rolling window. Think about it structurally. Fear & Greed at 10 means the crowd is positioned defensively -- low leverage, high stablecoin ratios, put/call skewed bearish, social volume cratered. But if price is rising into that environment, it means buying pressure exists despite the crowd sitting out. That's not noise. That