{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/qlty/trading/","section":"funds","title":"QLTY Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"QLTY 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/qlty/trading/#data","name":"QLTY trading costs and liquidity","description":"QLTY 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, 87.7 Holdings can absorb $427m 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 11; largest 62% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Feb 28, 2026 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 $427m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Aramark (ARMK), 2.48% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 6 active of 11 authorized participants; the largest did 62% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Feb 28, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed May 13, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (61.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (18.3%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (14.7%), Pershing LLC (2.7%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (2.1%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (0.3%). 5 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade QLTY\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 $4m 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 QLTY? QLTY\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Feb 28, 2026, lists 11 authorized participants (APs), and 6 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (61.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (18.3%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (14.7%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for QLTY? QLTY\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Citadel Securities 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 Feb 28, 2026, accession 0001410368-26-044170.\n Where to next\n QLTY 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 QLTY 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, QLTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qlty/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, QLTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qlty/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). QLTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/qlty/trading/ Markdown [QLTY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/qlty/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). 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