{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/trading/","section":"funds","title":"HYD Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, HYD closed +0.88% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 249 days to then it was within \u00b10.85%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/trading/#data","name":"HYD trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, HYD closed +0.88% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 249 days to then it was within \u00b10.85%. 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How the score is built \n Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here Price fidelity, 51.4 95% of days within \u00b10.85% of NAV, 249 days to Oct 22, 2026 Primary market, 100.0 10 active dealers of 40; largest 32% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Apr 30, 2026 Bad-day behaviour, 95.8 Premium 1.0604\u00d7 normal on the 10 worst S&P 500 days, to Oct 22, 2026 Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.88%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.85%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 1 of 249\n Widest: +1.01%, Dec 23, 2025\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 249 days from Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n Dealers\n 10 active of 40 authorized participants; the largest did 32% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Apr 30, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Jul 8, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Jane Street Capital, LLC (31.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (20.5%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (17.4%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (13.3%), Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (10.0%), Virtu Americas LLC (3.5%), Mirae Asset Securities (USA) Inc. (1.7%), Pershing LLC (0.6%), Wedbush Securities Inc. (0.6%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (0.4%). 30 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade HYD\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. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within \u00b10.85%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth. 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 Does HYD trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.88% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 249 days to then it was within \u00b10.85%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 1 of them. Who is the AP for HYD? HYD\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Apr 30, 2026, lists 40 authorized participants (APs), and 10 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Jane Street Capital, LLC (31.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (20.5%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (17.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for HYD? HYD\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Cboe BZX is Susquehanna Securities, LLC. Lead market maker per Cboe BZX, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Apr 30, 2026, accession 0001410368-26-069245.\n Where to next\n HYD 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 HYD 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, HYD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/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, HYD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). HYD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/trading/ Markdown [HYD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/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":"Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms.","citation":"ETFIQ, HYD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/hyd/trading/"}