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Two reports a market moves between: a wall read as near, so it narrows its reach, and its reach read as large, so its walls read as far.

Fear and greed (noun) means: Two reports a market moves between: a wall read as near, so it narrows its reach, and its reach read as large, so its walls read as far. It emerges from fear, reach, collective self, report: Each report, once kept across a market, acts on prices in a way that feeds the other: greed moves prices toward walls, and fear then reads them as near. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

fear-and-greed.swing · forms: fear and greed, greed and fear

ordinarily means: the two emotions said to drive financial markets

Examples

Emergence

from: fear reach collective self report market motion wall read near narrow large far
through: Each report, once kept across a market, acts on prices in a way that feeds the other: greed moves prices toward walls, and fear then reads them as near.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (450 steps)

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 4 more not shownfear and greedL18fear-and-greed.swing — Two reports a market moves between: a wall read as near, so it narrows its reach, and its reach read as large, so its wafearL15fear.nearing-wall — A self model reporting a wall as near and moving nearer, so that it narrows its own reach before any crossing.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.collective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one reportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventmarketL17market.economic — a place where people exchange goods for moneymotionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes information

Relations

contrasts-withfear-index.pricedthe fear index measures one end of the swing
contrasts-withanimal-spirits.urgeanimal spirits are the urge to act; greed is that urge read as reaching too far

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md