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IQ Bull U.S. Small Cap ETF  
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IQ BULL U.S. SMALL CAP ETF
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INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
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The IQ Bull U.S. Small Cap ETF (the “Fund”) seeks capital appreciation.
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FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
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This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Most investors will incur customary brokerage commissions when buying or selling Shares of the Fund, which are not reflected in the table set forth below.
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):
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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
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PORTFOLIO TURNOVER
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The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. This rate excludes the value of portfolio securities received or delivered as a result of in-kind creations or redemptions of the Fund’s Shares. The Fund is newly organized and, as of the date of this Prospectus, has not yet commenced operations.
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The Fund has not yet commenced operations and Other Expenses and Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
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The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses in this fee table may not correlate to the expense ratio in the Fund’s “Financial Highlights” section of the Prospectus, which reflects the Fund’s operating expenses and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
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Example.
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This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund.

The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain at current levels. The return of 5% and estimated expenses are for illustration purposes only, and should not be considered indicators of expected Fund expenses or performance, which may be greater or less than the estimates. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
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The Fund is an actively managed ETF and thus does not seek to replicate the performance of a specific index or a multiple thereof. Instead, the Fund uses an active management strategy to meet its investment objective. Consequently, although the Fund invests in the U.S. small capitalization market (the “U.S. Small Cap Market”), investors should not expect the Fund’s returns to track the returns of the U.S. Small Cap Market or a multiple (two times or otherwise) thereof for any period of time.

In addition to the variability of returns inherent to active management, the Fund’s returns over time are likely to differ from the returns of the U.S. Small Cap Market or a multiple (two times or otherwise) thereof for that period because the Fund’s returns will be compounded over that period. Moreover, the Fund may lose money when the U.S. Small Cap Market returns are flat over time, and it is possible that the Fund will lose money over time even if the U.S. Small Cap Market rises. Longer holding periods, higher market volatility and greater leverage each may exacerbate the impact of compounding on a fund’s returns. During periods of higher U.S. Small Cap Market volatility, such volatility may affect the Fund’s returns as much as or more than the returns of the U.S. Small Cap Market. For further discussion of compounding, see “Description of the Principal Risks of the Funds—Compounding Risk” in the Fund’s statutory prospectus.

The Fund may not be suitable for all investors and should be used only by knowledgeable investors who understand the potential consequences of seeking leveraged investment results. Shareholders should actively monitor their investments.

Investment Philosophy

For an investor having a positive return expectation for the U.S. Small Cap Market, maintaining a long exposure to a diversified basket of U.S. Small Cap Market securities is important for the investor to participate in the returns during periods when the U.S. Small Cap Market is moving up. The investor may also seek to benefit from strategies that employ a dynamic allocation process in an attempt to generate additional positive returns. These additional returns can enhance the returns during periods when the U.S. Small Cap Market is moving up and partially offset the losses when the U.S. Small Cap Market is moving down. By using a dynamic sector allocation process combined with leverage, the Fund seeks to outperform by a factor of two the U.S. Small Cap Market performance in both rising and falling markets. In other words, when the U.S. Small Cap Market is down in a given period, the Fund seeks to be down less than two times the return of the U.S. Small Cap Market during the same period and, conversely, when the U.S. Small Cap Market is up in a given period, the Fund seeks to be up by more than two times the return of the U.S. Small Cap Market during the same period.

Investment Process

The Fund invests primarily in U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) registered pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) holding primarily U.S. small capitalization equity securities.

The Fund’s investment process first breaks down all small capitalization U.S. companies by the sector in which they operate. Generally, these sectors include Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Financial, Health Care, Industrial, Materials, Technology, Telecommunications and Utilities. The Advisor then analyzes each sector based on a set of common investment factors. These factors include the following: price momentum (the trend in stock prices for each sector); valuation (how expensive stocks in one sector are relative to stocks in other sectors); and relative earnings (earnings strength and related characteristics of stocks in one sector relative to stocks in other sectors). The portfolio managers of the Fund then use the factors to determine the magnitude of the weighting for each sector in the portfolio. Under normal circumstances, all sectors will be included in the Fund’s portfolio.

To implement its strategy, the Fund will hold long positions in ETFs providing exposure to the sectors chosen by the Advisor (“Underlying ETFs”). In addition, the Fund will employ leverage to effect additional exposure to the Underlying ETFs of approximately 100% of the net assets of the Fund, such that the Fund will have 200% exposure to its investments. The leverage ratio will be uniform across all of the Underlying ETFs, such that the relative weights of each sector will stay the same, but the overall exposure of the Fund to each sector will be increased.

The strategy of overweighting and underweighting sectors to maximize opportunities for capital appreciation may result in the Fund investing greater than 25% of its total assets, directly or indirectly through Underlying ETFs, in the equity securities of companies operating in one or more sectors. Sectors are comprised of multiple individual industries. The Fund will not invest more than 25% of its total assets, directly or indirectly through Underlying ETFs, in an individual industry, as defined by the Standard Industrial Classification Codes utilized by the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC.

The Fund may also invest in one or more financial instruments, including but not limited to swap agreements and futures contracts (collectively, “Financial Instruments”), with economic characteristics similar to those of the ETFs for which they are substituted. As an example of the use of such Financial Instruments, a Fund may use total return swaps to effect exposure to the Underlying ETFs in which the Fund would otherwise invest and/or futures to effect exposure to the indexes on which such Underlying ETFs are based. To the extent the Fund employs leverage, the Advisor intends to use a total return swap to effect the leveraged exposure.

Generally, at least 80% of the Fund’s assets will be invested in equity securities of U.S. small capitalization companies, which exposure will be obtained through ETFs and/or Financial Instruments. As of the date of this Prospectus, the Advisor considers such “small capitalization companies” to have market capitalizations of between $300 million and $2 billion.
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PRINCIPAL RISKS
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The Fund is subject to the principal risks described below, as well as the risks described the Additional Risks section located in this Prospectus. Some or all of these risks may adversely affect the Fund’s NAV, trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective. As with any investment, an investment in the Fund could result in a loss or the performance of the Fund could be inferior to that of other investments. An investment in the Fund does not represent a complete investment program. An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. As with all investments, you may lose money in the Fund. A more complete discussion of Principal Risks is included under “Description of the Principal Risks of the Funds.”

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk

Only certain large institutions (an “Authorized Participant”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as Authorized Participants on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants). To the extent that those Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with the Fund and no other Authorized Participant is able to step forward to engage in creation and redemption transactions with the Fund, Fund shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and possibly face trading halts and/or delisting.

Compounding Risk

As the Fund utilizes leverage in seeking capital appreciation, the effect of compounding on leveraged positions may be detrimental to or compromise the ability of the Fund to meet its objective.

Derivatives Risk

A derivative is a financial contract, the value of which depends on, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset such as a security or an index. Certain Underlying ETPs may invest in certain types of derivatives contracts, including futures, options and swaps. Derivatives are subject to a number of risks based on the structure of the underlying instrument and the counterparty to the derivatives transaction. These risks include leveraging risk, liquidity risk, interest rate risk, market risk, credit risk, counterparty risk and management risk.

Equity Securities Risk

The prices of equity securities in which the Fund holds long positions indirectly through ETFs may rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries or the securities market as a whole.

Exchange-Traded Fund Risk

The Fund will invest in long positions in ETFs. Through its long positions in ETFs, the Fund will be subject to the risks associated with such vehicles’ investments, including the possibility that the value of the securities or instruments held by an ETF could decrease.

Industry Concentration Risk

To the extent the Fund’s investments are concentrated in a particular industry sector, the Fund will be susceptible to loss due to adverse occurrences affecting that particular industry. Concentrated Fund investments will subject the Fund to a greater risk of loss as a result of adverse economic, business or other developments than it its investments were diversified across different industry sectors.

Issuer Risk

From time to time the Fund may have exposure via its long positions to a limited number of issuers. During such times, the Fund is more susceptible to the risk that an issuer’s securities may depreciate in value.

Leverage Risk

Leverage, including borrowing, may cause an Underlying ETP to be more volatile by magnifying the Underlying ETP’s gains or losses than if the Underlying ETP had not been leveraged. The use of leverage may cause the Underlying ETP to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its obligations or to meet segregation requirements.

Market Risk

The market price of investments owned by a Fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Investments may decline in value due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries represented in the securities markets.

Small Capitalization Companies Risk

The Fund invests in the securities of small capitalization companies, the value of which may be more volatile than those of larger companies.

New Fund Risk

The Fund is a new fund. As a new fund, there can be no assurance that it will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case it could ultimately liquidate.

As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.
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As with all investments, you may lose money in the Fund.
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An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
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The Fund is new and therefore does not have a performance history for a full calendar year. Performance information for the Fund will be provided once it has annual returns for a full calendar year. Please remember that the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of its future performance. It may perform better or worse in the future.
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The Fund is new and therefore does not have a performance history for a full calendar year.
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Please remember that the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of its future performance.
IQ Bull U.S. Small Cap ETF | IQ Bull U.S. Small Cap ETF  
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Shareholder Fee, Other rr_ShareholderFeeOther none
Management Fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.95%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Total Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.05% [1]
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.29% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.29% [2]
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 131
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 $ 409
[1] The Fund has not yet commenced operations and Other Expenses and Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses in this fee table may not correlate to the expense ratio in the Fund's "Financial Highlights" section of the Prospectus, which reflects the Fund's operating expenses and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.