{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/","section":"funds","title":"EQTY Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"EQTY trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Nov 4, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/#data","name":"EQTY trading costs and liquidity","description":"EQTY trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. 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How the score is built \n Flags: One dealer.\n Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity, 84.6 Holdings can absorb $345m a day, Nov 4, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 50.0 3 active dealers of 3; largest 95% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Oct 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: no daily closing premium is held for this fund Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb $345m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 4, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is ALCON AG (ALC), 2.98% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 3 active of 3 authorized participants; the largest did 95% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (94.5%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (4.3%), VIRTU ITG (1.1%).\n How to trade EQTY\n When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund\u2019s own day once it has trade data. Size Up to $3.5m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. What retail orders paid\n In Sep 2026, retail market orders in EQTY paid $2.19 one way on $10,000, against $5.60 at the quote. 73% of shares filled better than the quote.\n EQTY: what retail market orders paid one way on $10,000, Sep 2026, half the effective spread. Source: SEC Rule 605 reports; computed by ETFIQ. Orders One way on $10,000 \n All wholesalers read $2.19 \n Fidelity customers $2.74 \n Schwab customers $3.07 \n EQTY: what retail market orders paid one way on $10,000, by month, at the wholesalers. Old format: orders of 100 to 9,999 shares, to Jul 2026. Month One way on $10,000 \n Aug 2025 (old format) $1.45 \n Sep 2025 (old format) $1.14 \n Oct 2025 (old format) $1.39 \n Nov 2025 (old format) $1.86 \n Dec 2025 (old format) $1.41 \n Jan 2026 (old format) $1.69 \n Feb 2026 (old format) $2.24 \n Mar 2026 (old format) $1.74 \n Apr 2026 (old format) $1.59 \n May 2026 (old format) $1.20 \n Jun 2026 (old format) $1.07 \n Jul 2026 (old format) $2.36 \n Aug 2026 $1.24 \n Sep 2026 $2.19 \n Where it trades\n In Q2 2026, odd lots were 3.1% of EQTY\u2019s exchange volume.\n Coming with trade data\n Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction\u2019s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.\n Questions people ask\n Who is the AP for EQTY? EQTY\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 3 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (94.5%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (4.3%), VIRTU ITG (1.1%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for EQTY? EQTY\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is GTS Securities LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Nov 1, 2026. Sources and dates\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Nov 4, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Oct 31, 2025, accession 0000910472-26-000265.\n Retail orders: SEC Rule 605 reports, Sep 2026, from Charles Schwab, G1 Execution Services, Fidelity Brokerage Services, Robinhood, HRT Financial, Jane Street Capital, Vanguard. Computed by ETFIQ. Citadel Securities refused ETFIQ\u2019s request, so its orders are not counted.\n Where it trades: SEC MIDAS, Q2 2026.\n Where to next\n EQTY fund page ETF trading costs and liquidity Limit orders vs market orders for ETFs Why low volume does not mean illiquid How the IQ Liquidity Score is built Compare EQTY with another fund The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, EQTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/ Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, EQTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Nov 4, 2026). EQTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/ Markdown [EQTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Nov 4, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Data ETFIQ computes is free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms.","citation":"ETFIQ, EQTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/eqty/trading/"}