Read the market before you read the charts

You can work through dozens of charts to find out what the market is doing this morning. Three numbers answer it faster, from three different sides, and each one opens on its own page with history and a write-up.

Market Pulse we calculate ourselves; the other two we borrow. It takes four figures: Bitcoin turnover against its yearly norm with a weekday correction, the price move over 24 hours, the range of that move, and the external fear and greed reading. The scale runs 0 to 100, where 50 is ordinary market conditions. Below 30 trading is thin and moves are weak; above 70 the market runs hot.

The Fear and Greed Index answers how the market feels. It pulls volatility, trading volume, social activity and Bitcoin dominance into one number from 0 to 100. Below 45 the market runs on caution, and past stretches in that range have lined up with local price bottoms. Above 55 greed takes over: buying gets easier, and so does overheating. alternative.me calculates it, we take the number and name the source.

The Altcoin Season Index counts what share of the hundred largest coins have beaten Bitcoin over the past 30 days. Below 25 capital sits in Bitcoin; above 75 it has spread into altcoins. The card also shows which coins are running ahead and by how much.

On its own each reading is one-sided. Fear and greed measures mood and knows nothing about volume, so the market can be euphoric on dead trading. Altcoin season measures rotation and cannot tell a rise from a fall, since a coin beats Bitcoin by dropping more slowly too. Pulse adds turnover and the daily range to the mood, so when it disagrees with fear and greed the disagreement reads: a greedy mood with Pulse under fifty means buyers are willing and money is thin.

None of these numbers is a trading signal. They describe the state of the market, and what you do about it is your call.

The converter turns an amount in any of twenty major currencies into Bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies at the current rate. Crypto to crypto works as well.

Billionaire wealth is a live counter for the five largest fortunes on the Forbes 400, with the amount converted into bitcoin and the saving horizon calculated from your own income and savings rate.

The three blocks at the foot of the page hold answers you look up once.

The regulation map carries the status of crypto per country, with the date of the last check.

The crypto calendar shows what is coming: token unlocks, forks, listings, conferences and the dates macro figures are published.

Crypto assets are pages for individual coins with price, volume, a year of history and a write-up on what the project is and who stands behind it.

A scheduled job computes Pulse once a day. Fear and greed and the altcoin index refresh several times a day; converter rates and coin prices change with the market. The editors update the regulation map by hand, and the date of the last check sits on the widget itself. Every tool is free and needs no account.