{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/trading/","section":"funds","title":"DFUS Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"DFUS 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/dfus/trading/#data","name":"DFUS trading costs and liquidity","description":"DFUS trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. 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Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/trading/","dateModified":"2026-10-22","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3925,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / DFUS / Trading \n \n As of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n DFUS bid-ask spread and liquidity\n IQ Liquidity Score\n Not scored, 2 of 6 measured.\n A fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. 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, 100.0 Holdings can absorb $16.0bn a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 100.0 10 active dealers of 21; largest 26% 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 $16.0bn a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. (BRK-B), 1.38% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 10 active of 21 authorized participants; the largest did 26% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 12, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (26.3%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (23.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (19.3%), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (13.0%), Nomura Securities International, Inc. (6.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (5.4%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (4.4%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (1.1%), BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC (0.3%), ABN AMRO Securities (USA) LLC (0.1%). 11 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade DFUS\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 $160m 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 DFUS? DFUS\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 21 authorized participants (APs), and 10 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (26.3%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (23.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (19.3%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for DFUS? DFUS\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 0001004726-26-000038.\n Where to next\n DFUS 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 DFUS 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, DFUS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/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, DFUS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). DFUS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/trading/ Markdown [DFUS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/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, DFUS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/dfus/trading/"}