Volatility on MarketMoodIQ is LunarCrush’s own volatility index for an asset’s recent price behaviour — it is not something we calculate ourselves.
Where it comes from
We pull volatility directly off LunarCrush’s coin response and store it unmodified on
each asset snapshot. On the asset detail page it’s shown to four decimal places under the label
"Volatility," with a hint noting it’s the "LunarCrush volatility index" — a plain pass-through,
not a MarketMoodIQ-derived figure.
How to read it
There’s no documented fixed ceiling on this number, so a single reading in isolation is hard to judge. It’s most useful compared against the same asset’s own recent history: a value noticeably higher than where it’s been sitting suggests price swings have picked up; a value near its recent floor suggests price has been comparatively calm.
Common misreadings
Don’t compare raw Volatility values across very different assets and assume the higher one is riskier in absolute terms — because the scale isn’t bounded like a 0–100 score, small-cap and large-cap assets can produce numbers that aren’t directly comparable. Also don’t confuse it with Attention-to-Price Divergence: Volatility describes the size of price moves, while divergence describes whether attention and price are moving together at all.