the Russell 2000 buyers are back in control here. We had a shakeout, and now manage risk. Look for the pattern of higher highs and higher lows to continue in there.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

if you're a bear, like go be a bear in small caps. Do not be a bear on mega cap tech... You've got yourself the downtrend here on the hourly chart. That's for sure. You've clearly blown out to a new hourly lower low. You've got hourly lower high here. You broke down from the bala

— Trade Brigade

The Russell 2000 also broke a new all-time high here today on this big gap higher. The path of least resistance has been higher lows and higher highs on the intermediate-term time frame.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

I think that the small caps will start to lead uh when everybody's positioned in the mega cap stuff already... why reach into the IWM quite yet and look for a performance booster when, you know, there's still plenty of setups happening in the mega cap tech arena.

— Trade Brigade

I would think the IWM gets hit harder if the market does go down and it is because of the thought process that interest rate cuts will be pushed further down the road. I think that's more of a problem for the IWM and small caps.

— EarningsBeats

I'm not jazzed up about them, but I'm also not as bearish small caps as I am on, you know, S&P NASDAQ... I hope you can maybe hear a little bit of the tension in my voice as it relates to small caps. I'm not jazzed up about them, but I'm also not as bearish small caps as I am on,

— Trade Brigade

The Russell 2000 has been showing relative strength. Relative strength to me means nothing. It just means we haven't gotten around to selling it yet.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

for small caps, not really the worst look in the world... Are we out of the woods? No, I don't think so. But, you know, it's certainly a step in the right direction... I'm gotta be honest, I'm a little bit more partial to that [look above and fail]

— Trade Brigade

The Russell two thousand hit a ten percent drop this past week. The Russell two thousand small cap index is in correction territory.

— EarningsBeats

I don't know on smalls. It's it's a little bit wishy-washy here as as I see it at least... I could almost see it going either way, which is never very helpful... Still bearish, but I could see the argument for the turn happening sooner on small caps

— Trade Brigade

This, as we know, has been more bearish with the breakdown of the overhead supply. You could see the clear lower high here just like the S&P 500... Great descending triangle, increased odds of a breakdown.

— Trade Brigade

The Russell 2000 has, you know, was once again this year is supposed to be the one that would lead us higher and it broke out of this triangle that we spoke about two weeks ago and it's just continued on down from there.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

yesterday, when we gapped down and we started to rally, I bought some of the IWM and the QQQ, personally. That's what I got into.

— EarningsBeats

The Russell 2000 failed miserably this week... we don't want to be buyers not what we have lower highs and lower lows with a declining 5-day moving average... Buying this market makes zero sense.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

The Russell 2000 failed miserably this week... cash is a position and risk management isn't just something I'm talking about because the market is down.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

the Russell 2000, we saw a shake below this level yesterday and subsequent nice recovery. If we can pull back kind of similar down into here and carve out a higher low, then perhaps we start to rebuild a little bit for a move higher, but I'm not hanging my hat on any calls here.

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends, at 2:45

small caps, which have been outperforming on a relative basis, do look a little bit better still even with the gap down today in that it's holding its support

— EarningsBeats, at 7:00

IWM, still kind of uh trading sideways. We bounced off the 50-day moving average.

— EarningsBeats

very constructive. We're holding above a rising 50-day moving average. That 20-day moving average is above the 50-day moving average, and the long-term trend the long-term look when we look at the weekly time frame, we're still in a clear major uptrend, and we've been kind of sta

— Brian Shannon - Alpha Trends

I don't really see that as being all that constructive. I think if you take out today's low tomorrow, it's the same as everything else. Range low rotation is the idea.

— Trade Brigade