# TSMY Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium

> As of Oct 22, 2026, TSMY’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.28%. A $10,000 order costs about $14 one way.

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

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

## TSMY bid-ask spread and liquidity

As of Oct 22, 2026, TSMY’s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.28%.

### IQ Liquidity Score

Not scored, 3 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

Cost to trade, 42.7 0.28% median spread, 30 days to Oct 22, 2026 Capacity, 88.7 Holdings can absorb $459m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: 16 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 65.0 3 active dealers of 3; largest 63% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Oct 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: 0 of the 10 worst days and 16 other days are held, under the 5 and 60 needed Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2)

### Cost for your order

| Order | Dollars | Percent | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| $1,000 | $1.40 | 0.14% | spread |
| $10,000 | $14 | 0.14% | spread |
| $100,000 | $170 | 0.17% | estimate |
| $1,000,000 | $2,359 | 0.24% | estimate |

### Premium or discount to NAV

- Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: −0.36%

- 95% of days within: ±0.49%

- Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 16

- Widest: +0.49%, Oct 15, 2026

Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 16 days from Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer’s NAV and closing price.

### Capacity

Its holdings can absorb $459m a day, measured on the trading volume of TSM, its benchmark, since its own book is not a stock book measured in full, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is TSM (TSM).

### Dealers

3 active of 3 authorized participants; the largest did 63% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Oct 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Jan 13, 2026).

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (62.6%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (27.9%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (9.5%).

### How to trade TSMY

Order type Limit: midpoint + 2¢ to buy, midpoint − 2¢ to sell. At the Oct 22 close of $13.89, that’s $13.91 to buy and $13.87 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 $5m 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 ±0.49%; 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

What is TSMY’s bid-ask spread? 0.28% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 22, 2026, as its issuer states it. Half of it is about 2¢ a share at the Oct 22 close. Does TSMY trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed −0.36% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 16 days to then it was within ±0.49%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for TSMY? TSMY’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Oct 31, 2025, lists 3 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (62.6%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (27.9%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (9.5%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for TSMY? TSMY’s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Citadel Securities LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. What does it cost to trade $10,000 of TSMY? About $14 one way, 0.14%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that. How do I place a limit order for TSMY? Set the limit at the midpoint + 2¢ to buy, or the midpoint − 2¢ to sell, in your broker’s quote. At the Oct 22 close of $13.89, that’s $13.91 to buy and $13.87 to sell.

### Sources and dates

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

- Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer’s NAV, Sep 11, 2026 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 Oct 31, 2025, accession 0000894189-26-000366.

### Where to next

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