{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/bbc/trading/","section":"funds","title":"BBC Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"BBC 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/bbc/trading/#data","name":"BBC trading costs and liquidity","description":"BBC 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, 45.3 Holdings can absorb $23m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 65.0 4 active dealers of 16; largest 56% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Oct 31, 2025 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 $23m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is SPYGLASS PHARMA INC (SGP), 0.82% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 4 active of 16 authorized participants; the largest did 56% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (56.2%), Virtu Americas LLC (22.2%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (17.0%), Citadel Securities LLC (4.6%). 12 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade BBC\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 $227,892 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 BBC? BBC\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 16 authorized participants (APs), and 4 created or redeemed shares. The largest were BofA Securities, Inc. (56.2%), Virtu Americas LLC (22.2%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (17.0%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for BBC? BBC\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Virtu Americas 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 Oct 31, 2025, accession 0000940400-26-000209.\n Where to next\n BBC 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 BBC 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, BBC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bbc/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, BBC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bbc/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). BBC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/bbc/trading/ Markdown [BBC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/bbc/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, BBC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bbc/trading/"}