# BOAT Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium > BOAT trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated. Data as of Jun 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. As of Jun 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. ## BOAT 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 Not measured: 44.4% of its long weight could be measured; the largest part not measured is foreign Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 50.0 3 active dealers of 3; largest 87% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Mar 31, 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 Not measured: 44.4% of its long weight could be measured; the largest part not measured is foreign. ### Dealers 3 active of 3 authorized participants; the largest did 87% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Mar 31, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Jun 10, 2026). The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (87.2%), UBS Securities LLC (8.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (4.2%). ### How to trade BOAT 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. ### 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 BOAT? BOAT’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Mar 31, 2026, lists 3 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (87.2%), UBS Securities LLC (8.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (4.2%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for BOAT? BOAT’s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is GTS Securities LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. ### Sources and dates - Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Mar 31, 2026, accession 0002000324-26-002272. ### 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, BOAT trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Jun 10, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/boat/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/boat/trading/