{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vb/trading/","section":"funds","title":"VB Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, VB closed +0.03% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 6 days to then it was within \u00b10.06%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vb/trading/#data","name":"VB trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, VB closed +0.03% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 6 days to then it was within \u00b10.06%. 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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, 100.0 Holdings can absorb $2.3bn a day, Oct 16, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: 6 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 100.0 14 active dealers of 38; largest 23% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Dec 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: 0 of the 10 worst days and 6 other days are held, under the 5 and 60 needed Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.03%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.06%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 6\n Widest: +0.06%, Oct 19, 2026\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 6 days from Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb $2.3bn a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 16, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Pershing Square Inc (PS), 0.06% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 14 active of 38 authorized participants; the largest did 23% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Dec 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Mar 12, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (22.6%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (19.3%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (11.4%), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (10.0%), Mizuho Securities USA LLC (7.9%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (6.6%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (4.2%), Jefferies LLC (3.8%), Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (3.8%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (3.2%), Citadel Securities LLC (3.1%), Barclays Capital Inc. (2.2%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (1.1%), Virtu Americas LLC (0.7%). 24 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade VB\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. Size Up to $23m 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 \u00b10.06%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth. 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 Does VB trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.03% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 6 days to then it was within \u00b10.06%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for VB? VB\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Dec 31, 2025, lists 38 authorized participants (APs), and 14 created or redeemed shares. The largest were J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (22.6%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (19.3%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (11.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for VB? VB\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Latour Trading LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026.\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 16, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Dec 31, 2025, accession 0000036405-26-000103.\n Where to next\n VB 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 VB 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, VB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vb/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, VB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vb/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). VB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/vb/trading/ Markdown [VB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/vb/trading/)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). 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