# fear and greed (swing)

*Ordinarily means:* the two emotions said to drive financial markets

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.

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [fear](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fear.nearing-wall), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [market](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-market.economic), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [near](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-near.spatial), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [large](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-large.size), [far](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-far.distance)

**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.

**Novel properties:**
- two reports that make each other
- a swing rather than a level

## Examples
- CNN Business publishes a Fear and Greed Index that combines seven market indicators into one score from extreme fear to extreme greed. *(finance)*

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