DUG bid-ask spread and liquidity

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LeverageProShares$33m net assets0.95% fee
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As of Oct 22, 2026, DUG’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.07%, and its IQ Liquidity Score is 82, Liquid.

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IQ Liquidity Score

5 of 6 measured · Oct 22, 2026
82
Liquid69th percentile of 107 leverage ETFs
0 · Hard to trade100 · Trades like a giant

The IQ Liquidity Score: 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 trades, not whether to own it. Method →

Liquid: trades at a typical spread of 0.07%, and its holdings can absorb $415m a day.

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Small but liquid
Cost to trade
0.07% median spread, 30 days to Oct 22, 2026
72.8
Capacity
Holdings can absorb $415m a day, Oct 22, 2026
87.3
Price fidelity
95% of days within ±0.16% of NAV, 250 days to Oct 22, 2026
96.4
Primary market
4 active dealers of 39; largest 54% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to May 31, 2026
65.0
Bad-day behaviour
Premium 1.0403× normal on the 10 worst S&P 500 days, to Oct 22, 2026
97.2
Depth
Not measured · needs trade and quote data (Phase 2)
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Cost for your order

One way, half its 30-day median spread; sizes above $10,000 are estimates
DUG: cost for your order at each size, round trip
OrderDollarsPercentBasis
$1,000$0.350.035%spread
$10,000$3.500.035%spread
$100,000$780.078%estimate
$1,000,000$1,7110.17%estimate

Spread 0.07% median, 30 days to Oct 22, 2026. Above $10,000 the cost adds an estimate of market impact that grows with the order against the holdings’ capacity; a patient limit pays less.

Full cost to own

At $10,000
1 year
1.09%$109
fee alone 0.95% · $95
5 years
4.89%$489
fee alone 4.75% · $475

Fee, plus the round-trip spread once, plus the median premium paid at entry. Against TBT (fee 0.93%): DUG costs less to own for about 3.8 years; after that TBT’s lower fee makes it the cheaper fund.

Premium or discount to value

Daily, 250 days to Oct 22, 2026 · the ±1% band marked
DUG premium or discount to NAV, 250 days+1%0−1%Oct 23, 2025Oct 22, 2026
Latest close, Oct 22
−0.07%
95% of days within
±0.16%
Days more than 1% from NAV
0 of 250
Widest
−0.44%, Sep 21, 2026

Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, from the issuer. Source: ETFIQ.

Capacity

What the holdings can absorb a day, at 10% of each one’s volume
Holdings can absorb
$415m

DUG’s holdings can absorb $415m a day, measured on the holdings of XLE, the asset its multiple is on, divided by its multiple of 2, as of Oct 22, 2026. A $1m order is 0.24% of a day’s capacity.

The holding that sets the limit: EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP (XOM), 23.98% of the fund, $2.0bn a day traded, the median of 20 days to Oct 22, 2026. Capacity is the least of the holding-level ratios over the holdings making up 95% of the weight.

Dealers

Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to May 31, 2026
Active dealers
4
of 39 authorized
Largest
54%
of creations and redemptions
One dealer
No
4 active

4 of 39 authorized participants created or redeemed DUG shares in the year to May 31, 2026. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Aug 14, 2026.

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Virtu Americas LLC (53.6%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (23.9%), Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (19.6%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (2.8%). 35 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.

Creations and redemptions

By week, 52 weeks to Oct 22, 2026
Oct 27 2025Each week’s net creations (green) and redemptionsOct 22 2026

$43m net created in 20 weeks and $10m net redeemed in 5, over the 52 weeks from Oct 27, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026, from the change in its shares outstanding.

How to trade DUG

To buy or to sell, up to $100,000
Order type
Limit: midpoint + 1¢ to buy, midpoint − 1¢ to sell.At the Oct 22 close of $12.81, that’s $12.82 to buy and $12.80 to sell.
When
ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last before the close.
Size
Up to $4m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell.
Watch
The premium. On 95% of days it is within ±0.16%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth.
Phase 2 · drawn now, filled when trade data arrives
Spread through the dayComing with trade data

Median spread by half hour, 30 days.

Buyers against sellersComing with trade data

Share of volume at the ask against at the bid.

Retail flow, estimatedComing with trade data

Sub-penny prints as a share of volume.

Large tradesComing with trade data

Prints above $500k, count and share.

Closing auctionComing with trade data

Share of the day’s volume at the close.

Questions people ask

Is DUG liquid?

DUG’s IQ Liquidity Score is 82 of 100, Liquid, the 69th percentile of 107 leverage ETFs, as of Oct 22, 2026. Its holdings can absorb $415m a day.

What is DUG’s bid-ask spread?

0.07% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 22, 2026, as its issuer states it. Half of it is about 1¢ a share at the Oct 22 close.

Does DUG trade at a premium or discount to NAV?

It closed −0.07% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 250 days to then it was within ±0.16%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them.

Who is the AP for DUG?

DUG’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending May 31, 2026, lists 39 authorized participants (APs), and 4 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Virtu Americas LLC (53.6%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (23.9%), Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (19.6%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed.

Who is the LMM for DUG?

DUG’s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Pundion. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026.

What does it cost to trade $10,000 of DUG?

About $3.50 one way, 0.035%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that. Owning $10,000 for a year costs about $109 all in, against $95 for the fee alone.

How do I place a limit order for DUG?

Set the limit at the midpoint + 1¢ to buy, or the midpoint − 1¢ to sell, in your broker’s quote. At the Oct 22 close of $12.81, that’s $12.82 to buy and $12.80 to sell.
Sources and dates
SpreadProShares (fund page), 30-day median · to Oct 22, 2026
Premium to NAVETFIQ, close against the issuer’s NAV · Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026
CapacityETFIQ, each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume · to Oct 22, 2026
DealersForm N-CEN · the year to May 31, 2026
Creations and redemptionsShares outstanding, daily, from the issuer
IQ Liquidity ScoreETFIQ · Oct 22, 2026
Where to next
ETF trading costs and liquidity→Cost-to-trade checker→Why low volume does not mean illiquidguide →Limit orders vs market orders for ETFsguide →How the IQ Liquidity Score is builtmethod →DUG fund page→
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