{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/bsmc/trading/","section":"funds","title":"BSMC Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"BSMC 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/bsmc/trading/#data","name":"BSMC trading costs and liquidity","description":"BSMC 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, 0.0 Holdings can absorb $66,746 a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 8; largest 39% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jun 30, 2026 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 $66,746 a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is BALFOUR BEATTY PLC (BLFBY), 1.77% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 5 active of 8 authorized participants; the largest did 39% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jun 30, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Sep 11, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (39.0%), BofA Securities, Inc. (26.7%), Virtu Americas LLC (26.4%), UBS Securities LLC (5.3%), Mizuho Securities USA LLC (2.5%). 3 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade BSMC\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 $667 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 BSMC? BSMC\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jun 30, 2026, lists 8 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (39.0%), BofA Securities, Inc. (26.7%), Virtu Americas LLC (26.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for BSMC? BSMC\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Cboe BZX is Susquehanna Securities, LLC. Lead market maker per Cboe BZX, 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 Jun 30, 2026, accession 0000940400-26-036392.\n Where to next\n BSMC 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 BSMC 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, BSMC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bsmc/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, BSMC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bsmc/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). BSMC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/bsmc/trading/ Markdown [BSMC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/bsmc/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, BSMC trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bsmc/trading/"}