{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/trading/","section":"funds","title":"SEPP Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, SEPP closed +0.05% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 12 days to then it was within \u00b10.24%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/trading/#data","name":"SEPP trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, SEPP closed +0.05% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 12 days to then it was within \u00b10.24%. 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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, 100.0 Holdings can absorb $14.3bn a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: 12 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 8; largest 66% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Oct 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: 0 of the 10 worst days and 12 other days are held, under the 5 and 60 needed Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.05%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.24%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 12\n Widest: \u22120.24%, Oct 8, 2026\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 12 days from Oct 6, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb $14.3bn a day, measured on the holdings of SPY, its reference asset, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B (BRK-B), 1.54% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 5 active of 8 authorized participants; the largest did 66% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 13, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Marex Capital Markets Inc. (66.0%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (14.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (11.7%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (5.6%), BofA Securities, Inc. (2.3%). 3 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade SEPP\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 $143m 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 \u00b10.24%; 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 SEPP trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.05% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 12 days to then it was within \u00b10.24%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for SEPP? SEPP\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 8 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Marex Capital Markets Inc. (66.0%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (14.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (11.7%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SEPP? SEPP\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Cboe BZX is RBC Capital Markets, LLC. Lead market maker per Cboe BZX, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Oct 6, 2026 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 Oct 31, 2025, accession 0000940400-26-000178.\n Where to next\n SEPP 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 SEPP 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, SEPP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/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, SEPP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). SEPP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/trading/ Markdown [SEPP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/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, SEPP trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/sepp/trading/"}