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Risk-on or risk-off? Know before you trade.

The market's overall mood decides whether your pairs trend cleanly or chop you to pieces. Get a clear read on risk appetite, so you know when to push and when the safe havens are about to take over.

Risk-on / risk-off read
Updated in real time
The mood behind every pair
Current sentiment

Risk On

Equities grinding higher with volatility suppressed; cross-asset signals lean risk-on.

Markets are leaning constructive with moderate risk appetite. Cross-asset signals point to a mild preference for growth-sensitive assets over safe havens.

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Historical risk sentiment score over 30 days

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Risk-offRisk-on
Risk On
Market drivers

The main factors driving today's risk sentiment

S&P 500Risk-on
672
Nasdaq 100Risk-on
612
CopperRisk-on
5.08
Credit spreadRisk-on
0.73
GoldRisk-off
3,412
BitcoinRisk-on
112,480
VIXNeutral
14.8
DXYNeutral
99.6
Currency risk sensitivity
Risk off· safe havens
JPYCHF
Neutral· mixed sensitivity
USDEUR
Risk on· carry
AUDNZDCAD

A perfect setup in the wrong mood

When risk sentiment turns, correlations take over and individual setups stop behaving. Most traders never check the backdrop.

Your setup is clean, but a risk-off wave hits and every pair lurches toward the safe havens at once.

You fight chop all session without realising the market was nervous and going nowhere.

A currency looks weak on its own merits, but a flight to safety is what is really moving it.

You cannot tell whether today is a day to press trends or sit on your hands.

Individual analysis only works when you know the mood it is happening in. Risk sentiment is that backdrop.

Read the mood before you read the chart

We pull the signals that reveal risk appetite into one clear read, so you know whether the market is reaching for risk or running to safety.

1.

Gauge the appetite. A single read on whether the market is in a risk-on or risk-off mood, updated as conditions change.

2.

Know the implications. Risk-on tends to favour the higher-yielders, risk-off the safe havens. The read tells you which way the tide is pulling.

3.

Time your aggression. Press trends when the mood supports them, and tighten up when a turn in sentiment is brewing.

The same setup behaves completely differently in risk-on and risk-off. Now you know which one you are in.

The backdrop behind every trade

One read that reframes everything else on your screen.

01Live

Updated in real time

Mood can flip fast. The read moves with it, so you are never trading yesterday's risk appetite.

Always current

02Clarifying

Explains the correlations

When everything moves together, sentiment is usually why. The read tells you when the macro story has handed control to the mood.

See the bigger force

03Protective

Spot the turns early

A shift toward safe havens often shows up here first. Catch it before it runs through your open trades.

Tighten up in time

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Still not sure?

Isn't sentiment just noise?

On a calm day it fades into the background. On the days it matters, it overrides everything else and drags every pair the same way. Knowing which day you are in is the whole point.

I trade single pairs, why care about the mood?

Because a single pair stops trading on its own merits the moment risk sentiment takes over. The mood decides whether your fundamental read even gets to play out.

How do I use it day to day?

As a filter. Risk-on supports trends in the higher-yielders, risk-off favours the havens. It tells you when to press and when to protect.

Trade with the mood, not against it

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