{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sbb/trading/","section":"funds","title":"SBB Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, SBB\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.29%, and its IQ Liquidity Score is 69, Liquid with care. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sbb/trading/#data","name":"SBB trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, SBB\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.29%, and its IQ Liquidity Score is 69, Liquid with care. 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How the score is built \n Liquid with care: its typical spread is 0.29% of its price.\n Cost to trade, 41.9 0.29% median spread, 30 days to Oct 22, 2026 Capacity, 93.2 Holdings can absorb $624m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity, 92.6 95% of days within \u00b10.31% of NAV, 249 days to Oct 22, 2026 Primary market, 65.0 3 active dealers of 39; largest 40% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to May 31, 2026 Bad-day behaviour, 59.2 Premium 1.7615\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 Cost for your order\n SBB one-way cost at each order size: half its 30-day median spread to Oct 22, 2026; sizes above $10,000 add an estimate of market impact. Source: ETFIQ. Order Dollars Percent Basis \n $1,000 $1.45 0.14% spread \n $10,000 $15 0.14% spread \n $100,000 $158 0.16% estimate \n $1,000,000 $1,858 0.19% estimate \n Full cost to own\n At $10,000: 1.31% ($131) over 1 year, and 5.11% ($511) over 5 years; the fee alone is 0.95% ($95) a year. Fee, plus the round-trip spread once, plus the median premium paid at entry.\n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.04%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.31%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 249\n Widest: \u22120.44%, Jan 23, 2026\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 249 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 $624m a day, measured on the holdings of IJR, the asset its multiple is on, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is MGE ENERGY (MGEE), 0.16% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 3 active of 39 authorized participants; the largest did 40% of creations and redemptions, in the year to May 31, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Aug 14, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (39.7%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (35.9%), Virtu Americas LLC (24.4%). 36 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade SBB\n Order type Limit: midpoint + 4\u00a2 to buy, midpoint \u2212 4\u00a2 to sell. At the Oct 22 close of $23.66, that\u2019s $23.70 to buy and $23.62 to sell. 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 Up to $6m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within \u00b10.31%; 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 Is SBB liquid? SBB\u2019s IQ Liquidity Score is 69 of 100, Liquid with care, the 35th percentile of 107 leverage ETFs, as of Oct 22, 2026. Its holdings can absorb $624m a day. What is SBB\u2019s bid-ask spread? 0.29% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 22, 2026, as its issuer states it. Half of it is about 4\u00a2 a share at the Oct 22 close. Does SBB trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.04% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 249 days to then it was within \u00b10.31%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for SBB? SBB\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending May 31, 2026, lists 39 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (39.7%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (35.9%), Virtu Americas LLC (24.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SBB? SBB\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. What does it cost to trade $10,000 of SBB? About $15 one way, 0.14%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that. Owning $10,000 for a year costs about $131 all in, against $95 for the fee alone. How do I place a limit order for SBB? Set the limit at the midpoint + 4\u00a2 to buy, or the midpoint \u2212 4\u00a2 to sell, in your broker\u2019s quote. At the Oct 22 close of $23.66, that\u2019s $23.70 to buy and $23.62 to sell. Sources and dates\n Spread: ProShares (fund page), 30 days to Oct 22, 2026 ( the issuer\u2019s page ).\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 May 31, 2026, accession 0002071691-26-017775.\n Score: ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026. The method is at /methodology/liquidity.\n Where to next\n SBB 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 SBB 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. 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