—
C+
C+ The full Closelook — membership. Open the C+ overview

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD) — chart, structure and Closelook read

Home› Indices›
Pick a ticker to load its detail page.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for LQD, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

About iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD) is an exchange-traded fund that trades on US exchanges. Closelook tracks it as a benchmark: the dailies and the sector dispersion board quote it as a market reference, and the holdings card above matches its largest positions against the names with a Closelook page. It is a constituent of Closelook benchmark ETF set.

closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD)?

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading as LQD on the US exchange (US) and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelook tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

How does Closelook use LQD?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelook covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does LQD trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -0.9% vs the 50-day and -2.7% vs the 200-day average, 5% below the 52-week high and +1.1% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 64 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

Where has Closelook written about iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF?

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF appears in 4 Closelook pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: Real Rates — What TIPS and the Credit Tape Say About the AI Build-Out Before the Fed (2026-09-15); Daily Pulse: Bond Rout, Day Two: The US 10-Year Tops 4.8%, Its Highest Since November 2023 (2026-09-02); Daily Pulse: Instruments for the Bond Verdict (2026-08-19). What Closelook said most recently: Leveraged loans, which float with the front end, are flat on the month (BKLN $20.61, +0.1%) while the fixed-rate credit funds fell with duration: investment-grade (LQD) −1.7%, high-yield (HYG) −1.5%. (Daily Pulse, 2026-09-15). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for LQD, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelook names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 4 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “Real Rates — What TIPS and the Credit Tape Say About the AI Build-Out Before the Fed” (2026-09-15)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where LQD appears in the diary — 4 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

Dailies