{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/trading/","section":"funds","title":"LQD Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, LQD closed +0.08% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 251 days to then it was within \u00b10.11%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/trading/#data","name":"LQD trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, LQD closed +0.08% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 251 days to then it was within \u00b10.11%. 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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, 100.0 95% of days within \u00b10.11% of NAV, 251 days to Oct 22, 2026 Primary market, 100.0 11 active dealers of 42; largest 30% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Feb 28, 2026 Bad-day behaviour, 94.0 Premium 1.0869\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: +0.08%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.11%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 251\n Widest: +0.53%, Nov 11, 2025\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 251 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 11 active of 42 authorized participants; the largest did 30% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Feb 28, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed May 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Jane Street Capital, LLC (30.2%), BofA Securities, Inc. (18.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (13.8%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (12.5%), Barclays Capital Inc. (10.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (10.8%), Jefferies LLC (1.8%), BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (1.6%), Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (0.1%), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (0.1%), BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC (0.0%). 31 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade LQD\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 \u00b10.11%; 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 LQD trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.08% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 251 days to then it was within \u00b10.11%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for LQD? LQD\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Feb 28, 2026, lists 42 authorized participants (APs), and 11 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Jane Street Capital, LLC (30.2%), BofA Securities, Inc. (18.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (13.8%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for LQD? LQD\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, 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 Feb 28, 2026, accession 0001410368-26-044733.\n Where to next\n LQD 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 LQD 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, LQD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/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, LQD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). LQD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/trading/ Markdown [LQD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/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, LQD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/lqd/trading/"}