SMMD bid-ask spread and liquidity
As of Nov 4, 2026, SMMD closed 0.00% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 251 days to then it was within ±0.13%.
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· 4 of 6 measured · Nov 4, 2026How easily this fund trades, from 0 to 100 on the same anchors for every fund; 100 is best. Method →
Capacity: what its holdings can absorb in a day. Price fidelity: how close its price stays to NAV, the value of what it holds. Primary market: the dealers who create and redeem its shares. Bad-day behaviour: its premium on the market’s worst days. Depth: the dollars quoted at the bid and the ask. How to read the score →
Above zero: a premium. Below: a discount.
SMMD’s holdings can absorb $1.6bn a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 4, 2026. A $1m order is 0.06% of a day’s capacity.
Who makes the market
Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Mar 31, 202611 of 36 authorized participants created or redeemed SMMD shares in the year to Mar 31, 2026. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Jun 15, 2026.
APs create and redeem shares. Every AP →
Active APs, largest first, by share of dollars created and redeemed: Citadel Securities LLC (27.3%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (19.3%), BofA Securities, Inc. (18.6%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (11.3%), Virtu Americas LLC (7.1%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (6.8%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (3.8%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (3.2%), Cowen and Company, LLC (1.3%), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (1.1%), BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC (0.2%). 25 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.
$2.4bn net created in 45 weeks and $500m net redeemed in 7, over the 52 weeks from Nov 10, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026, from the change in its shares outstanding.
What retail orders paid
One way on $10,000, Sep 2026In Sep 2026, retail market orders in SMMD paid $2.42 one way on $10,000, against $3.63 at the quote.
73% of shares filled better than the quote.
Where it trades
Q2 2026, 62 trading daysIn Q2 2026, odd lots were 14.6% of SMMD’s exchange volume.
Off exchange means wholesalers and dark pools. Odd lots are orders under 100 shares, a sign of retail trading.
How to place the order
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.
- Size
- Up to $16m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell.
- Watch
- The premium to NAV, charted above: a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, when it is wide.
Median spread by half hour, 30 days.
Volume bought at the ask against volume sold at the bid.
Trades priced in fractions of a cent, a sign of retail orders.
Trades above $500k: how many, and their share of volume.
Share of the day’s volume at the close.
Questions people ask
Does SMMD trade at a premium or discount to NAV?
Who is the AP for SMMD?
Who is the LMM for SMMD?
The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ makes no recommendations.
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