Evaluating Liquidity of Low Volume Exchange Traded Funds
It’s disconcerting when the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) you’re interested in has low trading volumes. Days can go by with no volume at all. If it was a small cap stock you wouldn’t consider buying it. But low volume in itself shouldn’t prevent you from considering an ETF—some have the liquidity of a large-cap stock. ETF Liquidity Unlike stocks, ETFs have two levels of liquidity. …
