{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/ustb/trading/","section":"funds","title":"USTB Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"USTB trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Sep 11, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/ustb/trading/#data","name":"USTB trading costs and liquidity","description":"USTB 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 19; largest 69% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jun 30, 2026 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 19 authorized participants; the largest did 69% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jun 30, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Sep 11, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Jane Street Capital, LLC (68.6%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (23.1%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (4.6%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (3.2%), Virtu Americas LLC (0.5%). 14 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade USTB\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 USTB? USTB\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jun 30, 2026, lists 19 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Jane Street Capital, LLC (68.6%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (23.1%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (4.6%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for USTB? USTB\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jun 30, 2026, accession 0001004726-26-008117.\n Where to next\n USTB 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 USTB 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, USTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/ustb/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, USTB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/ustb/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Sep 11, 2026). 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