SHY bid-ask spread and liquidity

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
BondsiShares$27.3bn net assets0.15% fee
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As of Oct 22, 2026, SHY closed +0.03% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 251 days to then it was within ±0.04%.

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IQ Liquidity Score

3 of 6 measured · Oct 22, 2026
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Not scored
0 · Hard to trade100 · Trades like a giant

The IQ Liquidity Score: a fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund trades, not whether to own it. Method →

Cost to trade
Not measured · the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund
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Capacity
Not measured · its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here
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Price fidelity
95% of days within ±0.04% of NAV, 251 days to Oct 22, 2026
100.0
Primary market
9 active dealers of 36; largest 35% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Feb 28, 2026
85.0
Bad-day behaviour
Premium 1× normal on the 10 worst S&P 500 days, to Oct 22, 2026
100.0
Depth
Not measured · needs trade and quote data (Phase 2)
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Premium or discount to value

Daily, 251 days to Oct 22, 2026 · the ±1% band marked
SHY premium or discount to NAV, 251 days+1%0−1%Oct 23, 2025Oct 22, 2026
Latest close, Oct 22
+0.03%
95% of days within
±0.04%
Days more than 1% from NAV
0 of 251
Widest
+0.06%, May 22, 2026

Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, from the issuer. Source: ETFIQ.

Capacity

What the holdings can absorb a day

Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.

Dealers

Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Feb 28, 2026
Active dealers
9
of 36 authorized
Largest
35%
of creations and redemptions
One dealer
No
9 active

9 of 36 authorized participants created or redeemed SHY shares in the year to Feb 28, 2026. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed May 14, 2026.

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (35.0%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (32.2%), BofA Securities, Inc. (21.7%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (9.0%), Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (1.1%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (0.3%), Barclays Capital Inc. (0.3%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (0.3%), BMO Capital Markets Corp. (0.1%). 27 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.

Creations and redemptions

By week, 52 weeks to Oct 22, 2026
Oct 27 2025Each week’s net creations (green) and redemptionsOct 22 2026

$6.8bn net created in 28 weeks and $3.4bn net redeemed in 24, over the 52 weeks from Oct 27, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026, from the change in its shares outstanding.

How to trade SHY

To buy or to sell, up to $100,000
When
ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last before the close.
Watch
The premium. On 95% of days it is within ±0.04%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth.
Phase 2 · drawn now, filled when trade data arrives
Spread through the dayComing with trade data

Median spread by half hour, 30 days.

Buyers against sellersComing with trade data

Share of volume at the ask against at the bid.

Retail flow, estimatedComing with trade data

Sub-penny prints as a share of volume.

Large tradesComing with trade data

Prints above $500k, count and share.

Closing auctionComing with trade data

Share of the day’s volume at the close.

Questions people ask

Does SHY 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 ±0.04%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them.

Who is the AP for SHY?

SHY’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Feb 28, 2026, lists 36 authorized participants (APs), and 9 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (35.0%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (32.2%), BofA Securities, Inc. (21.7%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed.

Who is the LMM for SHY?

SHY’s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026.
Sources and dates
Premium to NAVETFIQ, close against the issuer’s NAV · Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026
DealersForm N-CEN · the year to Feb 28, 2026
Creations and redemptionsShares outstanding, daily, from the issuer
Where to next
ETF trading costs and liquidity→Cost-to-trade checker→Why low volume does not mean illiquidguide →Limit orders vs market orders for ETFsguide →How the IQ Liquidity Score is builtmethod →SHY fund page→
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