{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/mfsm/trading/","section":"funds","title":"MFSM Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"MFSM trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"May 14, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/mfsm/trading/#data","name":"MFSM trading costs and liquidity","description":"MFSM 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/mfsm/trading/","dateModified":"2026-05-14","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3461,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / MFSM / Trading \n \n As of May 14, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n MFSM bid-ask spread and liquidity\n IQ Liquidity Score\n Not scored, 1 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 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, 65.0 3 active dealers of 13; largest 59% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Feb 28, 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 3 active of 13 authorized participants; the largest did 59% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Feb 28, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed May 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Jane Street Capital, LLC (59.3%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (35.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (4.9%). 10 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade MFSM\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 MFSM? MFSM\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Feb 28, 2026, lists 13 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Jane Street Capital, LLC (59.3%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (35.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (4.9%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for MFSM? MFSM is on none of the lead market maker (LMM) lists ETFIQ reads, from NYSE Arca, Cboe BZX and Nasdaq. Each list covers only that exchange\u2019s own program, so this does not mean it has no LMM. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Feb 28, 2026, accession 0001410368-26-044797.\n Where to next\n MFSM 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 MFSM 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, MFSM trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of May 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/mfsm/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, MFSM trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of May 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/mfsm/trading/ APA ETFIQ. 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