{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/mbs/trading/","section":"funds","title":"MBS Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"MBS trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Apr 15, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/mbs/trading/#data","name":"MBS trading costs and liquidity","description":"MBS 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 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, 85.0 5 active dealers of 5; largest 53% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jan 31, 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 Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n Dealers\n 5 active of 5 authorized participants; the largest did 53% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jan 31, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Apr 15, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (53.5%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (28.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (16.7%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (0.9%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (0.4%).\n How to trade MBS\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 AP for MBS? MBS\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jan 31, 2026, lists 5 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were BofA Securities, Inc. (53.5%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (28.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (16.7%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for MBS? MBS\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jan 31, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-156310.\n Where to next\n MBS 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 MBS 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, MBS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Apr 15, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/mbs/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, MBS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Apr 15, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/mbs/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Apr 15, 2026). MBS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. 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