| getFGIndex {cryptoQuotes} | R Documentation |
Get the daily Fear and Greed Index for the cryptocurrency market
Description
![[Deprecated]](../help/figures/lifecycle-deprecated.svg)
The fear and greed index is a market sentiment indicator that measures investor emotions to gauge whether they are generally fearful (indicating potential selling pressure) or greedy (indicating potential buying enthusiasm)
Usage
getFGIndex(from = NULL, to = NULL)
Arguments
from |
An optional character, date or POSIXct vector of length 1. NULL by default. |
to |
An optional character, date or POSIXct vector of length 1. NULL by default. |
Details
On time-zones and dates
Values passed to from or to must be coercible by as.Date(), or as.POSIXct(), with a format of either "%Y-%m-%d" or "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S". By default
all dates are passed and returned with Sys.timezone().
On returns
If only from is provided 200 pips are returned up to Sys.time(). If only to is provided 200 pips up to the specified date
is returned.
Value
An xts-object containing,
fgi (numeric): The daily fear and greed index value
Note
The Fear and Greed Index goes from 0-100, and can be classified as follows,
0-24, Extreme Fear
25-44, Fear
45-55, Neutral
56-75, Greed
76-100, Extreme Greed
Author(s)
Serkan Korkmaz
See Also
Other deprecated:
availableExchanges(),
availableIntervals(),
availableTickers(),
getLSRatio(),
getQuote()
Examples
## Not run:
# script: Fear and Greed Index
# date: 2023-12-26
# author: Serkan Korkmaz, serkor1@duck.com
# objective: Retrieve and Plot the
# index
# script start;
# 1) get the fear and greed index
# for the last 7 days
tail(
fgi <- cryptoQuotes::get_fgindex(
from = Sys.Date() - 7
)
)
# script end;
## End(Not run)