{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/trading/","section":"funds","title":"MUNI Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"MUNI trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Sep 14, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/trading/#data","name":"MUNI trading costs and liquidity","description":"MUNI 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 8 active dealers of 27; largest 35% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jun 30, 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 8 active of 27 authorized participants; the largest did 35% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jun 30, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Sep 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (35.0%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (30.9%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (10.6%), Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (9.0%), Virtu Americas LLC (6.8%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (3.7%), Pershing LLC (3.4%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (0.6%). 19 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade MUNI\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 MUNI? MUNI\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jun 30, 2026, lists 27 authorized participants (APs), and 8 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (35.0%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (30.9%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (10.6%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for MUNI? MUNI\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Flow Traders U.S. LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jun 30, 2026, accession 0001410368-26-091413.\n Where to next\n MUNI 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 MUNI 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, MUNI trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/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, MUNI trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Sep 14, 2026). MUNI trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/trading/ Markdown [MUNI trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Sep 14, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/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, MUNI trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 14, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/muni/trading/"}