PCEF bid-ask spread and liquidity
See what PCEF costs to trade and how closely it tracks its value.
IQ Liquidity Score
· 3 of 6 measured · Nov 11, 2026How easily this fund trades, from 0 to 100 on the same anchors for every fund; 100 is best. Method →
Capacity: what its holdings can absorb in a day. Price fidelity: how close its price stays to NAV, the value of what it holds. Primary market: the dealers who create and redeem its shares. Bad-day behaviour: its premium on the market’s worst days. Depth: the dollars quoted at the bid and the ask. How to read the score →
PCEF is not scored: its spread is not read, so it has no point on this chart. 17 scored Allocation ETFs are plotted for comparison, Nov 12, 2026.
PCEF among Allocation ETFs
Cheaper to trade sits left, easier to trade sits up.
What a trade costs
One way, half its 30-day median spread; sizes above $10,000 are estimates| Order | Dollars | Percent | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $0.80 | 0.08% | spread |
| $10,000 | $8.00 | 0.08% | spread |
| $100,000 | $170 | 0.17% | estimate |
| $1,000,000 | $3,636 | 0.36% | estimate |
Above zero: a premium. Below: a discount.
PCEF’s holdings can absorb $5.7m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 11, 2026. A $1m order is 17.43% of a day’s capacity.
Who makes the market
Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Aug 31, 20255 of 41 authorized participants created or redeemed PCEF shares in the year to Aug 31, 2025. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Nov 14, 2025.
APs create and redeem shares. Every AP →
Active APs, largest first, by share of dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (47.7%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (25.7%), Virtu Americas LLC (13.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (10.0%), Citadel Securities LLC (2.8%). 36 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.
What retail orders paid
One way on $10,000, Sep 2026In Sep 2026, retail market orders in PCEF paid $1.84 one way on $10,000, against $6.91 at the quote.
92% of shares filled better than the quote.
PCEF ranked 1866th of 4,090 ETFs by retail order activity in Sep 2026, an ETFIQ estimate.
0.0015% of the market-order dollars in 4 retail brokers’ reports. Buys and sells together. Retail activity ranking →
Where it trades
Q2 2026, 62 trading daysIn Q2 2026, 90% of PCEF’s shares traded off exchange on the median day.
Off exchange means wholesalers and dark pools. Odd lots are orders under 100 shares, a sign of retail trading.
How to place the order
To buy or to sell, up to $100,000- Order type
- Limit: midpoint + 2¢ to buy, midpoint − 2¢ to sell.At the Nov 11 close of $19.20, that’s $19.22 to buy and $19.18 to sell.
- When
- ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last before the close.
- Size
- Up to $57,364 is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell.
- Watch
- The premium to NAV, charted above: a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, when it is wide.
Median spread by half hour, 30 days.
Volume bought at the ask against volume sold at the bid.
Trades above $500k: how many, and their share of volume.
Share of the day’s volume at the close.
Questions people ask
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