{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vabs/trading/","section":"funds","title":"VABS Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 21, 2026, VABS\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.08%. A $10,000 order costs about $4.00 one way.","as_of":"Oct 21, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vabs/trading/#data","name":"VABS trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 21, 2026, VABS\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.08%. 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A $10,000 order costs about $4.00 one way.","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vabs/trading/","dateModified":"2026-10-21","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede",".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":4003,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / VABS / Trading \n \n As of Oct 21, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n VABS bid-ask spread and liquidity\n As of Oct 21, 2026, VABS\u2019s median bid-ask spread over 30 days was 0.08%.\n IQ Liquidity Score\n Not scored, 2 of 6 measured.\n 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 \n Flags: One dealer.\n Cost to trade, 69.9 0.08% median spread, 30 days to Oct 21, 2026 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, 50.0 3 active dealers of 15; largest 81% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jul 31, 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 Cost for your order\n VABS one-way cost at each order size: half its 30-day median spread to Oct 21, 2026; sizes above $10,000 add an estimate of market impact. Source: ETFIQ. Order Dollars Percent Basis \n $1,000 $0.40 0.04% spread \n $10,000 $4.00 0.04% spread \n Capacity\n Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n Dealers\n 3 active of 15 authorized participants; the largest did 81% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jul 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Oct 14, 2025).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (81.4%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (11.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (7.0%). 12 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade VABS\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 What is VABS\u2019s bid-ask spread? 0.08% of the midpoint, the median over the 30 days to Oct 21, 2026, as its issuer states it. Who is the AP for VABS? VABS\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jul 31, 2025, lists 15 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were BofA Securities, Inc. (81.4%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (11.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (7.0%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for VABS? VABS\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. What does it cost to trade $10,000 of VABS? About $4.00 one way, 0.04%: half its 30-day median spread. In and out costs twice that. Sources and dates\n Spread: Virtus (fund page), 30 days to Oct 21, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jul 31, 2025, accession 0000940400-25-003130.\n Where to next\n VABS 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 VABS 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, VABS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 21, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vabs/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, VABS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 21, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vabs/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 21, 2026). 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