{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/hmop/trading/","section":"funds","title":"HMOP Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, HMOP\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.19%. A $10,000 order costs about $9.50 one way.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/hmop/trading/#data","name":"HMOP trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, HMOP\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.19%. 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A $10,000 order costs about $9.50 one way.","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/hmop/trading/","dateModified":"2026-10-22","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede",".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":4087,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / HMOP / Trading \n \n As of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n HMOP bid-ask spread and liquidity\n As of Oct 22, 2026, HMOP\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.19%.\n IQ Liquidity Score\n Not scored, 2 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 Cost to trade, 51.1 0.19% median spread, 30 days to Oct 22, 2026 Capacity Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 13; largest 44% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jul 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 Cost for your order\n HMOP one-way cost at each order size: half its 30-day median spread to Oct 22, 2026; sizes above $10,000 add an estimate of market impact. Source: ETFIQ. Order Dollars Percent Basis \n $1,000 $0.95 0.095% spread \n $10,000 $9.50 0.095% spread \n Capacity\n Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n Dealers\n 5 active of 13 authorized participants; the largest did 44% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jul 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Oct 9, 2025).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (44.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (28.9%), Virtu Americas LLC (18.4%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (6.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (2.1%). 8 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade HMOP\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 What is HMOP\u2019s bid-ask spread? 0.19% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 22, 2026, as its issuer states it. Who is the AP for HMOP? HMOP\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jul 31, 2025, lists 13 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (44.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (28.9%), Virtu Americas LLC (18.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for HMOP? HMOP\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. What does it cost to trade $10,000 of HMOP? About $9.50 one way, 0.095%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that. Sources and dates\n Spread: Hartford (fund page), 30 days to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jul 31, 2025, accession 0001410368-25-014111.\n Where to next\n HMOP 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 HMOP 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, HMOP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/hmop/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, HMOP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/hmop/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). 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