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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 Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market Not measured: no N-CEN ETF row for series S000007007 in the quarters read (2024q4 to 2026q3) 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 Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n How to trade FSTB\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. 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 LMM for FSTB? FSTB\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Where to next\n FSTB 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 FSTB 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, FSTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/fstb/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, FSTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/fstb/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). FSTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/fstb/trading/ Markdown [FSTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/fstb/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, FSTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/fstb/trading/"}