PCL bid-ask spread and liquidity
See what PCL costs to trade and how closely it tracks its value.
IQ Liquidity Score
· 2 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 →
PCL is not scored: its spread is not read, so it has no point on this chart. 340 scored Bonds ETFs are plotted for comparison, Nov 12, 2026.
PCL among Bonds 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 | $0.75 | 0.075% | spread |
| $10,000 | $7.50 | 0.075% | spread |
Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.
Who makes the market
Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Aug 31, 20254 of 11 authorized participants created or redeemed PCL shares in the year to Aug 31, 2025. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Nov 13, 2025.
APs create and redeem shares. Every AP →
Active APs, largest first, by share of dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (40.0%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (20.0%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (20.0%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (20.0%). 7 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.
Where it trades
Q2 2026, 62 trading daysIn Q2 2026, odd lots were 58.2% of PCL’s exchange volume.
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- When
- ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last before the close.
Median spread by half hour, 30 days.
Volume bought at the ask against volume sold at the bid.
Trades priced in fractions of a cent, a sign of retail orders.
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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