{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/trading/","section":"funds","title":"QDF Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"QDF trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/trading/#data","name":"QDF trading costs and liquidity","description":"QDF trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. 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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, 91.3 Holdings can absorb $549m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 6 active dealers of 24; largest 44% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Oct 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) \n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb $549m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Kemper Corp. (KMPR), 0.46% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 6 active of 24 authorized participants; the largest did 44% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (43.9%), UBS Securities LLC (33.7%), Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (16.3%), Virtu Americas LLC (5.4%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (0.5%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (0.2%). 18 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade QDF\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. Size Up to $5m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. 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 Who is the AP for QDF? QDF\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 24 authorized participants (APs), and 6 created or redeemed shares. The largest were BofA Securities, Inc. (43.9%), UBS Securities LLC (33.7%), Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (16.3%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for QDF? QDF\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Latour Trading LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Oct 31, 2025, accession 0002071691-26-000168.\n Where to next\n QDF 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 QDF 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, QDF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/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, QDF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). QDF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/trading/ Markdown [QDF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/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, QDF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qdf/trading/"}