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CEFZ
RiverNorth Active Income ETF
Category AllocationIssuer TrueSharesNet assets $39mFee 2.82%

CEFZ bid-ask spread and liquidity

See what CEFZ costs to trade and how closely it tracks its value.

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Not scored

IQ Liquidity Score

· 2 of 6 measured · Nov 11, 2026
$556,572
its holdings can absorb a day
0 · Hard to trade100 · Trades like a giant

How easily this fund trades, from 0 to 100 on the same anchors for every fund; 100 is best. Method →

One dealer
Cost to trade
Not measured · the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund
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Capacity
Holdings can absorb $556,572 a day, Nov 11, 2026
0.0
Price fidelity
Not measured · no closing premium is held for this fund
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Primary market
1 active dealer of 1; largest 100% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Sep 30, 2025
25.0
Bad-day behaviour
Not measured · no daily closing premium is held for this fund
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Depth
Not measured · needs trade and quote data
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Capacity: what its holdings can absorb in a day. Price fidelity: how close its price stays to NAV, the value of what it holds. Primary market: the dealers who create and redeem its shares. Bad-day behaviour: its premium on the market’s worst days. Depth: the dollars quoted at the bid and the ask. How to read the score →

CEFZ is not scored: its spread is not read, so it has no point on this chart. 17 scored Allocation ETFs are plotted for comparison, Nov 12, 2026.

Spread against score

CEFZ among Allocation ETFs

Cheaper to trade sits left, easier to trade sits up.

17 scored
Hard to tradeThinLiquid with careLiquidTrades like a giantNov 12, 2026
CapacityWhat its holdings making up 95% of the weight can absorb a day, at 10% of each one’s volume
Holdings can absorb
$556,572

CEFZ’s holdings can absorb $556,572 a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 11, 2026. A $1m order is 179.67% of a day’s capacity.

The holding that sets the limit: Clough Global Equity Fund (GLQ), 4.38% of the fund, $249,583 a day traded, the median of 20 days to Nov 12, 2026.

Who makes the market

Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Sep 30, 2025
Active dealers
1
of 1 authorized
Largest
100%
of creations and redemptions
One dealer
Yes
1 active

1 of 1 authorized participants created or redeemed CEFZ shares in the year to Sep 30, 2025. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Dec 11, 2025.

APs create and redeem shares. Every AP →

Active APs, largest first, by share of dollars created and redeemed: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (100.0%).

What retail orders paid

One way on $10,000, Sep 2026
All wholesalers read
$21
Fidelity customers
−$1.69
Robinhood customers
$14
Schwab customers
$25

In Sep 2026, retail market orders in CEFZ paid $21 one way on $10,000, against $23 at the quote.

44% of shares filled better than the quote.

CEFZ ranked 3205th of 4,090 ETFs by retail order activity in Sep 2026, an ETFIQ estimate.

0.0002% of the market-order dollars in 4 retail brokers’ reports. Buys and sells together. Retail activity ranking →

Where it trades

Q2 2026, 62 trading days
Off exchange
84%
Odd lots, of exchange volume
6.4%

In Q2 2026, 84% of CEFZ’s shares traded off exchange on the median day.

Off exchange means wholesalers and dark pools. Odd lots are orders under 100 shares, a sign of retail trading.

How to place the order

To buy or to sell, up to $100,000
When
ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last before the close.
Size
Up to $5,566 is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell.
Why low volume does not mean illiquid →Limit orders vs market orders for ETFs →
Not measured yet: these need trade data
Spread through the day

Median spread by half hour, 30 days.

Buyers against sellers

Volume bought at the ask against volume sold at the bid.

Large trades

Trades above $500k: how many, and their share of volume.

Closing auction

Share of the day’s volume at the close.

Questions people ask

Who is the AP for CEFZ?

CEFZ’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Sep 30, 2025, lists 1 authorized participant (APs), and 1 created or redeemed shares. The only active AP was J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.

Who is the LMM for CEFZ?

CEFZ 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.
Where to next
ETF trading costs and liquidity→Cost-to-trade checker→Why low volume does not mean illiquidguide →Limit orders vs market orders for ETFsguide →How the IQ Liquidity Score is builtmethod →CEFZ fund page→
Sources and dates
CapacityETFIQ, each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume · to Nov 11, 2026
DealersForm N-CEN · the year to Sep 30, 2025
Retail ordersSEC Rule 605 reports · Sep 2026
Where it tradesSEC MIDAS · Q2 2026

The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ makes no recommendations.

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ETFIQ, CEFZ trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Nov 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/cefz/trading/

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The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ makes no recommendations.