A practical watchlist of sentiment, breadth, valuation, liquidity, metals, crypto, and risk indicators. No single tool should drive a decision by itself; the goal is to watch clusters of evidence that point toward risk, opportunity, or patience.
These gauges help frame whether the market is behaving with panic, discipline, complacency, or greed. They are most useful when confirmed by breadth and trend.
Tracks multiple market inputs to summarize whether investors are fearful or greedy.
Custom dashboard for market valuation, sentiment, risk appetite, opportunity, and timing.
Breadth shows whether the market move is broad and healthy or narrow and fragile. Strong indexes with weak participation deserve caution.
Shows the weakest movers across U.S. exchanges for the current session.
Shows the strongest movers across U.S. exchanges for the current session.
Valuation is a poor short-term timing tool, but it is valuable for understanding long-term risk, expected returns, and how much optimism is already priced in.
Tracks cyclically adjusted valuation for the U.S. stock market.
MacroMicro's U.S. CAPE series provides another view of long-term market valuation.
Sentiment helps reveal whether investors are crowded on one side of the boat. It works best as a contrary signal at extremes.
Weekly survey showing bullish, neutral, and bearish individual investor expectations.
Metals can reflect inflation concern, currency distrust, liquidity stress, and risk-off behavior.
Compares gold's price to silver's price, often used as a stress and relative-value gauge.
Tracks the premium or discount between Shanghai and Western gold pricing.
Crypto can behave like a speculative liquidity gauge. It is not the whole market, but sharp moves often reveal shifts in risk appetite.
Broad view of crypto market capitalization, leaders, laggards, volume, and speculation.
Tracks crypto market sentiment on a spectrum from extreme fear to extreme greed.
These indicators complement the core list by measuring volatility, rates, credit, currency pressure, and market trend.
Measures expected S&P 500 volatility and is one of the cleanest fear gauges.
Shows the market's discount-rate pressure on stocks, bonds, housing, and credit.
Tracks the relative strength of the U.S. dollar against a weighted basket of major global currencies.
Tracks stress in lower-quality corporate debt, often warning before stock damage broadens.
Simple trend checks help separate normal pullbacks from broader technical deterioration.
These resources are educational research tools, not personalized financial advice. Use them together, look for confirmation across categories, and always respect your own time horizon, risk tolerance, cash needs, and plan.