{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/trading/","section":"funds","title":"PFF Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, PFF closed +0.03% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 251 days to then it was within \u00b10.25%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/trading/#data","name":"PFF trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, PFF closed +0.03% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 251 days to then it was within \u00b10.25%. 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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 Holdings can absorb up to $7m a day; part of the book has no volume figure Price fidelity, 91.2 95% of days within \u00b10.25% of NAV, 251 days to Oct 22, 2026 Primary market, 100.0 10 active dealers of 36; largest 34% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Mar 31, 2026 Bad-day behaviour, 73.5 Premium 1.4438\u00d7 normal on the 10 worst S&P 500 days, to Oct 22, 2026 Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.03%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.25%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 251\n Widest: \u22120.35%, Sep 18, 2026\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 251 days from Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb up to $7m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is CHS INC (CHSCP), 0.46% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 10 active of 36 authorized participants; the largest did 34% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Mar 31, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Jun 15, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (34.0%), BofA Securities, Inc. (23.3%), Virtu Americas LLC (14.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (13.2%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (6.6%), HRT Financial LP (3.0%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (2.1%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (1.8%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (1.1%), Barclays Capital Inc. (0.5%). 26 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade PFF\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. Size Part of its book has no volume figure, so the room for a large order is an upper bound. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within \u00b10.25%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth. 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 Does PFF trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.03% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 251 days to then it was within \u00b10.25%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for PFF? PFF\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Mar 31, 2026, lists 36 authorized participants (APs), and 10 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (34.0%), BofA Securities, Inc. (23.3%), Virtu Americas LLC (14.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for PFF? PFF\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Citadel Securities LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Mar 31, 2026, accession 0001004726-26-004646.\n Where to next\n PFF 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 PFF 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, PFF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/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, PFF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). PFF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/trading/ Markdown [PFF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/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, PFF trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/pff/trading/"}