{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/trading/","section":"funds","title":"SDOG Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"SDOG trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/trading/#data","name":"SDOG trading costs and liquidity","description":"SDOG 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, 91.6 Holdings can absorb $559m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 6 active dealers of 6; largest 46% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Nov 30, 2025 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 Its holdings can absorb $559m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Snap-on Inc (SNA), 1.91% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 6 active of 6 authorized participants; the largest did 46% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Nov 30, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Feb 13, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Citadel Securities LLC (46.2%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (23.8%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (19.3%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (5.9%), Virtu Americas LLC (3.6%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (1.1%).\n How to trade SDOG\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 Up to $6m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. 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 SDOG? SDOG\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Nov 30, 2025, lists 6 authorized participants (APs), and 6 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Citadel Securities LLC (46.2%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (23.8%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (19.3%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SDOG? SDOG\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is GTS Securities LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Nov 30, 2025, accession 0001049169-26-000159.\n Where to next\n SDOG 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 SDOG 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, SDOG trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/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, SDOG trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). SDOG trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/trading/ Markdown [SDOG trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/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, SDOG trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/sdog/trading/"}