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EQL
Alps Equal Sector Weight ETF
Category StocksIssuer ALPSNet assets $764mFee 0.19%
Trading · Alps Equal Sector Weight ETF

EQL bid-ask spread and liquidity

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As of Nov 4, 2026, EQL’s holdings can absorb $4.4bn a day.

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IQ Liquidity Score

· 2 of 6 measured · Nov 4, 2026
$4.4bn
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 →

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 $4.4bn a day, Nov 4, 2026
100.0
Price fidelity
Not measured · no closing premium is held for this fund
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Primary market
5 active dealers of 5; largest 30% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Nov 30, 2025
85.0
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 →

CapacityWhat its holdings making up 95% of the weight can absorb a day, at 10% of each one’s volume
Holdings can absorb
$4.4bn

EQL’s holdings can absorb $4.4bn a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 4, 2026. A $1m order is 0.02% of a day’s capacity.

The holding that sets the limit: Welltower Inc (WELL), 1.32% of the fund, $576m a day traded, the median of 20 days to Nov 4, 2026.

Who makes the market

Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Nov 30, 2025
Active dealers
5
of 5 authorized
Largest
30%
of creations and redemptions
One dealer
No
5 active

5 of 5 authorized participants created or redeemed EQL shares in the year to Nov 30, 2025. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Feb 13, 2026.

APs create and redeem shares. Every AP →

Active APs, largest first, by share of dollars created and redeemed: Virtu Americas LLC (29.6%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (24.2%), Citadel Securities LLC (16.8%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (14.9%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (14.5%).

What retail orders paid

One way on $10,000, Sep 2026
All wholesalers read
$1.11
Fidelity customers
$0.93
Vanguard customers
$1.28
Schwab customers
$1.61

In Sep 2026, retail market orders in EQL paid $1.11 one way on $10,000, against $2.92 at the quote.

87% of shares filled better than the quote.

Aug 2025Grey: old format, orders of 100 to 9,999 sharesSep 2026

Where it trades

Q2 2026, 62 trading days
Odd lots, of exchange volume
20.8%

In Q2 2026, odd lots were 20.8% of EQL’s exchange volume.

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 $44m 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.

Retail flow, estimated

Trades priced in fractions of a cent, a sign of retail orders.

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 EQL?

EQL’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Nov 30, 2025, lists 5 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Virtu Americas LLC (29.6%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (24.2%), Citadel Securities LLC (16.8%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed.

Who is the LMM for EQL?

EQL’s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is GTS Securities LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Nov 1, 2026.
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 →EQL fund page→
Sources and dates
CapacityETFIQ, each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume · to Nov 4, 2026
DealersForm N-CEN · the year to Nov 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, EQL trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/eql/trading/

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