🚀 August 19-21 marked the first mood flip. Bitcoin raced toward $80K as Treasury buybacks eased yields and more than $4B in crypto shorts were liquidated, while social chatter became heavily focused on higher prices. The rally then flattened as enthusiasm caught up with price. 🔥 September 3 brought an even clearer FOMO extreme. Talk of higher prices surged again after BTC cleared $80K, while U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows jumped to roughly $731M that day. Price weakened afterward, another example of late optimism becoming dangerous once the crowd starts chasing the same direction. 😨 September 15 flipped the script. The Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, Bitcoin dropped, and discussion of lower prices reached the chart’s highest point of the month. Heavy fear after an actual selloff is a much more encouraging contrarian setup than heavy optimism after a vertical rally. 🧭 Crowd extremes are counter-signals, not precise timers. FOMO can persist before a top, and FUD can deepen before a rebound. But when expectations become this one-sided, remember that markets typically always move the opposite direction of the extreme group-think. 🔗 Live Chart: https://app.santiment.net/s/CqBIH0X4?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=lower_higher_social_trends_b_091626&aff=3