# AKAF Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium > AKAF trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated. Data as of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. As of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. ## AKAF bid-ask spread and liquidity ### IQ Liquidity Score Not scored, 1 of 6 measured. A fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. How the score is built Flags: One dealer. Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity Holdings can absorb up to $10m a day; part of the book has no volume figure Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 30.0 2 active dealers of 2; largest 94% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Feb 28, 2026 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: no daily closing premium is held for this fund Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) ### Capacity Its holdings can absorb up to $10m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is GoldMining Inc (GLDG), 0.47% of the fund. ### Dealers 2 active of 2 authorized participants; the largest did 94% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Feb 28, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed May 14, 2026). The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (93.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (6.2%). ### How to trade AKAF When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund’s own day once it has trade data. Size Part of its book has no volume figure, so the room for a large order is an upper bound. ### Coming with trade data Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction’s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data. ### Questions people ask Who is the AP for AKAF? AKAF’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Feb 28, 2026, lists 2 authorized participants (APs), and 2 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (93.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (6.2%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for AKAF? AKAF is on none of the lead market maker (LMM) lists ETFIQ reads, from NYSE Arca, Cboe BZX and Nasdaq. Each list covers only that exchange’s own program, so this does not mean it has no LMM. ### Sources and dates - Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026. - Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Feb 28, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-223051. ### Where to next The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources --- Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices. Cite: ETFIQ, AKAF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/akaf/trading/ Licence: https://etfiq.com/license/ Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms. HTML: https://etfiq.com/funds/akaf/trading/