Index
Russell 2000
What is the Russell 2000?
Two thousand of the smallest companies in the broad US market — the standard benchmark for American small-cap stocks.
We never publish the index level; it is not our data. What you can trade is IWM, the iShares Russell 2000 ETF; the chart below is IWM via TradingView.
The line runs 300.09 USD on 5 August through 279.24 USD on 2 November, on a scale from 270 to 310. Days the market did not trade hold the previous close, flat.
What is Reddit saying about the Russell 2000?
Reddit has said “russell 2000” 1,126 times since January 2026, 311 of those in the last 90 days.
The count folds the crowd’s variant spellings — “russell 2000”, “rut” — into one figure; country names never resolve here.
Mostly discussed on r/wallstreetbets, r/investing, r/etfs, r/options and r/stocks.
Counts come from the tracked subreddits, as of 3 Nov 2026.
References
- Finazonprior-day close, indicative (IEX-derived, not the official close), some closes dollar-rounded at the source
- TradingViewthe price chart widget, drawn by TradingView from their own data
- RedditReddit ingest across the tracked finance subreddits