# NIKL Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium

> As of Oct 20, 2026, NIKL’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.63%. A $10,000 order costs about $32 one way.

Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Oct 20, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

## NIKL bid-ask spread and liquidity

As of Oct 20, 2026, NIKL’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.63%.

### IQ Liquidity Score

Not scored, 2 of 6 measured.

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

Cost to trade, 25.1 0.63% median spread, 30 days to Oct 20, 2026 Capacity Not measured: 2.7% of its long weight could be measured; the largest part not measured is unresolved Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 5; largest 49% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Dec 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)

### Cost for your order

| Order | Dollars | Percent | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| $1,000 | $3.15 | 0.32% | spread |
| $10,000 | $32 | 0.32% | spread |

### Capacity

Not measured: 2.7% of its long weight could be measured; the largest part not measured is unresolved.

### Dealers

5 active of 5 authorized participants; the largest did 49% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Dec 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Mar 17, 2026).

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: UBS Securities LLC (49.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (47.9%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (1.2%), Virtu Americas LLC (1.1%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (0.6%).

### How to trade NIKL

When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund’s own day once it has trade data.

### Coming with trade data

Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction’s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.

### Questions people ask

What is NIKL’s bid-ask spread? 0.63% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 20, 2026, as its issuer states it. Who is the AP for NIKL? NIKL’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Dec 31, 2025, lists 5 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were UBS Securities LLC (49.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (47.9%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (1.2%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for NIKL? NIKL’s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. What does it cost to trade $10,000 of NIKL? About $32 one way, 0.32%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that.

### Sources and dates

- Spread: Sprott (fund page), 30 days to Oct 20, 2026 ( the issuer’s page ).

- Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Dec 31, 2025, accession 0001049169-26-000822.

### Where to next

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