{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/trading/","section":"funds","title":"QQQY Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, QQQY closed +0.10% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 15 days to then it was within \u00b10.18%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/trading/#data","name":"QQQY trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, QQQY closed +0.10% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 15 days to then it was within \u00b10.18%. 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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, 100.0 Holdings can absorb $8.6bn a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: 15 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 65.0 3 active dealers of 3; largest 60% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Aug 31, 2024 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: 0 of the 10 worst days and 15 other days are held, under the 5 and 60 needed Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.10%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.18%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 15\n Widest: +0.18%, Oct 8, 2026\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 15 days from Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb $8.6bn a day, measured on the holdings of QQQ, its benchmark, since its own book is not a stock book measured in full, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Automatic Data Processing Inc (ADP), 0.54% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 3 active of 3 authorized participants; the largest did 60% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Aug 31, 2024 (Form N-CEN filed Nov 14, 2024).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (60.4%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (39.4%), Virtu Americas LLC (0.2%).\n How to trade QQQY\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 $86m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within \u00b10.18%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth. 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 Does QQQY trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.10% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 15 days to then it was within \u00b10.18%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for QQQY? QQQY\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Aug 31, 2024, lists 3 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (60.4%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (39.4%), Virtu Americas LLC (0.2%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for QQQY? QQQY\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Old Mission Capital LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026.\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Aug 31, 2024, accession 0001145549-24-069224.\n Where to next\n QQQY 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 QQQY 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, QQQY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/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, QQQY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). QQQY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/trading/ Markdown [QQQY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/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, QQQY trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/qqqy/trading/"}