{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/esim/trading/","section":"funds","title":"ESIM Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"ESIM trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Jul 14, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/esim/trading/#data","name":"ESIM trading costs and liquidity","description":"ESIM trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. 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Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/esim/trading/","dateModified":"2026-07-14","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3383,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / ESIM / Trading \n \n As of Jul 14, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n ESIM bid-ask spread and liquidity\n IQ Liquidity Score\n Not scored, 1 of 6 measured.\n 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 \n Flags: One dealer.\n Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity Not measured: 31.9% 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, 30.0 2 active dealers of 10; largest 97% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Apr 30, 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) \n Capacity\n Not measured: 31.9% of its long weight could be measured; the largest part not measured is foreign.\n Dealers\n 2 active of 10 authorized participants; the largest did 97% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Apr 30, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Jul 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (96.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (3.2%). 8 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade ESIM\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. 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 ESIM? ESIM\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Apr 30, 2026, lists 10 authorized participants (APs), and 2 created or redeemed shares. The largest were J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (96.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (3.2%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for ESIM? ESIM\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is RBC Capital Markets, LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Apr 30, 2026, accession 0001004726-26-005738.\n Where to next\n ESIM 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 ESIM 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, ESIM trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Jul 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/esim/trading/ Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, ESIM trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Jul 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/esim/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Jul 14, 2026). ESIM trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. 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