# VPLS Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium > As of Oct 22, 2026, VPLS closed +0.12% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 5 days to then it was within ±0.22%. No fund is recommended. Data as of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. As of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. ## VPLS bid-ask spread and liquidity As of Oct 22, 2026, VPLS closed +0.12% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 5 days to then it was within ±0.22%. ### IQ Liquidity Score Not scored, 1 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 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: 5 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 38; largest 33% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Sep 30, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: 0 of the 10 worst days and 5 other days are held, under the 5 and 60 needed Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) ### Premium or discount to NAV - Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.12% - 95% of days within: ±0.22% - Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 5 - Widest: +0.22%, Oct 20, 2026 Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 5 days from Oct 16, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer’s NAV and closing price. ### Capacity Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here. ### Dealers 5 active of 38 authorized participants; the largest did 33% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Sep 30, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Dec 10, 2025). The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Jane Street Capital, LLC (33.1%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (27.4%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (26.2%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (11.8%), Virtu Americas LLC (1.5%). 33 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing. ### How to trade VPLS 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. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within ±0.22%; 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 Does VPLS trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed +0.12% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 5 days to then it was within ±0.22%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for VPLS? VPLS’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Sep 30, 2025, lists 38 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Jane Street Capital, LLC (33.1%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (27.4%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (26.2%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for VPLS? VPLS’s lead market maker (LMM) on Nasdaq is Jane Street Capital, LLC. Lead market maker per Nasdaq, as of Oct 23, 2026. ### Sources and dates - Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer’s NAV, Oct 16, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. - Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Sep 30, 2025, accession 0000836906-25-000268. ### Where to next The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources --- Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices. Cite: ETFIQ, VPLS trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vpls/trading/ Licence: https://etfiq.com/license/ Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms. HTML: https://etfiq.com/funds/vpls/trading/