{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/smth/trading/","section":"funds","title":"SMTH Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"SMTH trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Feb 13, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/smth/trading/#data","name":"SMTH trading costs and liquidity","description":"SMTH 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 Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 5; largest 63% 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 Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n Dealers\n 5 active of 5 authorized participants; the largest did 63% 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: Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (63.0%), Virtu Americas LLC (16.9%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (15.3%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (4.6%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (0.3%).\n How to trade SMTH\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. 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 SMTH? SMTH\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Nov 30, 2025, lists 5 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (63.0%), Virtu Americas LLC (16.9%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (15.3%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SMTH? SMTH\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Nov 30, 2025, accession 0001049169-26-000159.\n Where to next\n SMTH 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 SMTH 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, SMTH trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Feb 13, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/smth/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, SMTH trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Feb 13, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/smth/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Feb 13, 2026). SMTH trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. 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