IWM — iShares Russell 2000 ETF Live Price
IWM Live Price Chart
1D and 5D plot 5- and 30-minute intraday candles; 1M–6M plot daily candles. Prices are indicative and may be delayed.
Period returns — 1D is the latest session move (the last completed session when the market is closed); 1W–1Y are computed from real daily closing history. Each window is shown only when its data is available.
Key Statistics
Technical Summary
3 of 5 signals read sell.
Computed from real daily price history (RSI 14, SMA 20/50/200, MACD 12/26/9) · as of Sep 9, 22:11 UTC. Not investment advice.
About IWM
The iShares Russell 2000 ETF, ticker IWM, is the principal vehicle for US small-cap exposure. It is listed on NYSE Arca and quoted in US dollars like any ordinary share, trading through the regular US session from 9:30am to 4:00pm Eastern. The fund tracks the Russell 2000, which FTSE Russell builds by ranking the broad Russell 3000 universe by size and keeping the smaller companies at the bottom of it, weighted by float-adjusted market capitalisation. The rules are mechanical rather than committee-chosen, so the index admits companies that are not yet profitable — a structural difference from small-cap benchmarks that apply an earnings screen. Membership is rebuilt at FTSE Russell's scheduled reconstitutions, the flow events small-cap traders mark on the calendar, since index funds must trade the additions and deletions.
Small caps behave differently from the mega-cap benchmarks rather than simply tracking them with more volatility. Constituents earn a larger share of revenue inside the United States, so the index reads more like a gauge of the domestic economy than of global demand, and smaller companies lean more on bank and floating-rate borrowing and refinance more often, which makes them unusually sensitive to interest rates and credit conditions. That is why the ratio of IWM to the large-cap benchmarks is watched as a read on market breadth and risk appetite. The fund is used on both sides of the market — as a long expression of US cyclical strength and as a liquid short or hedge — and sits alongside two other routes to the same exposure: cash-settled options on the index itself and the CME's Russell 2000 futures.
The market for IWM is currently closed. At the last close it stood at 290.64, a move of -4.03 (-1.37%) versus the previous close of 294.67, after ranging between 290.31 and 294.15 over that session. FXMARE's technical engine currently reads the setup as Sell.
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IWM ETF Profile
IWM — frequently asked questions
What is the IWM stock price today?
This page shows the live price of IWM, the iShares Russell 2000 ETF, with an intraday chart and the day's range through the US trading session. IWM is a fund rather than a single company's stock, but it is exchange-listed on NYSE Arca and quoted continuously in US dollars during market hours, so its price behaves like any listed share. What it is worth follows the Russell 2000 small-cap index.
What does IWM track?
The Russell 2000, the small-cap segment of the US equity market. FTSE Russell ranks the Russell 3000 universe by size and takes the smaller companies at the bottom of it, weighting them by float-adjusted market capitalisation. The rules are mechanical rather than committee-chosen, so the index includes companies that are not yet profitable, and no analyst judgement decides who joins or leaves.
What are IWM's trading hours?
IWM trades on NYSE Arca during the regular US session, 9:30am to 4:00pm Eastern, and most US brokers also route it in the pre-market and after-hours sessions, where liquidity is thinner and spreads wider. It does not trade around the clock the way forex does. When US equities are shut, the overnight read on small caps comes from the Russell 2000 futures contract on the CME instead.
What is the difference between IWM and the Russell 2000 index?
The Russell 2000 is a calculated index, published under the ticker RUT, and cannot be bought directly. IWM is a listed fund that holds the constituents, so it follows the index net of fees and a small tracking difference. The derivatives differ too: options on the index are cash-settled, while IWM options deliver shares of the fund, and the CME's RTY futures offer a third, margined route to the same exposure.
How does the Russell 2000 differ from the S&P SmallCap 600?
Both cover US small caps, but they are constructed differently. The Russell 2000 is rules-based: FTSE Russell simply takes the smaller portion of the Russell 3000 by market capitalisation, with no profitability test, so early-stage and loss-making companies qualify. The S&P SmallCap 600 is committee-maintained and applies an earnings screen for inclusion. That quality tilt is the main reason the two small-cap benchmarks, and the funds tracking them, can diverge over long stretches.
What moves IWM?
Interest rates and credit conditions matter more here than for large caps, because smaller companies borrow more heavily at floating rates and refinance more often, so Federal Reserve expectations and bank lending conditions move the fund. Domestic growth and inflation data carry extra weight, since constituents earn more of their revenue inside the US. FTSE Russell's scheduled reconstitutions, when index membership is rebuilt, concentrate index-tracking flow into short stretches of the calendar.
Why do traders watch small caps against large caps?
The relative performance of IWM versus the large-cap benchmarks is a widely used read on market breadth: when a handful of mega-caps carry the headline index, small caps lag, and a broadening rally tends to show up in IWM first. Because small caps are domestically focused and rate-sensitive, that ratio is also read as a live gauge of risk appetite and of expectations for the US economy specifically.