# SMN Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium

> As of Oct 22, 2026, SMN’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.47%, and its IQ Liquidity Score is 56, Liquid with care. No fund is recommended.

Data as of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

## SMN bid-ask spread and liquidity

As of Oct 22, 2026, SMN’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.47%, and its IQ Liquidity Score is 56, Liquid with care.

### IQ Liquidity Score

56 of 100, Liquid with care, 7th percentile of 107 leverage ETFs, 5 of 6 measured.

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 can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. How the score is built

Liquid with care: its typical spread is 0.47% of its price.

Cost to trade, 31.4 0.47% median spread, 30 days to Oct 22, 2026 Capacity, 75.7 Holdings can absorb $187m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity, 77.1 95% of days within ±0.43% of NAV, 249 days to Oct 22, 2026 Primary market, 45.0 2 active dealers of 39; largest 79% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to May 31, 2026 Bad-day behaviour, 62.6 Premium 1.6806× normal on the 10 worst S&P 500 days, to Oct 22, 2026 Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2)

### Cost for your order

| Order | Dollars | Percent | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| $1,000 | $2.35 | 0.23% | spread |
| $10,000 | $24 | 0.23% | spread |
| $100,000 | $287 | 0.29% | estimate |
| $1,000,000 | $4,000 | 0.40% | estimate |

### Full cost to own

At $10,000: 1.56% ($156) over 1 year, and 5.36% ($536) 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.

### Premium or discount to NAV

- Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.27%

- 95% of days within: ±0.43%

- Days more than 1% from NAV: 1 of 249

- Widest: +1.63%, Jan 28, 2026

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’s NAV and closing price.

### Capacity

Its holdings can absorb $187m a day, measured on the holdings of XLB, the asset its multiple is on, divided by its multiple of 2, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA (PKG), 3.37% of the fund.

### Dealers

2 active of 39 authorized participants; the largest did 79% of creations and redemptions, in the year to May 31, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Aug 14, 2026).

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (79.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (20.6%). 37 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.

### How to trade SMN

Order type Limit: midpoint + 5¢ to buy, midpoint − 5¢ to sell. At the Oct 22 close of $19.46, that’s $19.51 to buy and $19.41 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’s own day once it has trade data. Size Up to $2m 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 ±0.43%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth.

### Coming with trade data

Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction’s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.

### Questions people ask

Is SMN liquid? SMN’s IQ Liquidity Score is 56 of 100, Liquid with care, the 7th percentile of 107 leverage ETFs, as of Oct 22, 2026. Its holdings can absorb $187m a day. What is SMN’s bid-ask spread? 0.47% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 22, 2026, as its issuer states it. Half of it is about 5¢ a share at the Oct 22 close. Does SMN trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.27% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 249 days to then it was within ±0.43%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 1 of them. Who is the AP for SMN? SMN’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending May 31, 2026, lists 39 authorized participants (APs), and 2 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (79.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (20.6%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SMN? SMN’s 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 SMN? About $24 one way, 0.23%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that. Owning $10,000 for a year costs about $156 all in, against $95 for the fee alone. How do I place a limit order for SMN? Set the limit at the midpoint + 5¢ to buy, or the midpoint − 5¢ to sell, in your broker’s quote. At the Oct 22 close of $19.46, that’s $19.51 to buy and $19.41 to sell.

### Sources and dates

- Spread: ProShares (fund page), 30 days to Oct 22, 2026 ( the issuer’s page ).

- Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer’s NAV, Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

- Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026.

- Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to May 31, 2026, accession 0002071691-26-017775.

- Score: ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026. The method is at /methodology/liquidity.

### Where to next

The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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