{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vsdb/trading/","section":"funds","title":"VSDB Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, VSDB closed +0.12% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 5 days to then it was within \u00b10.20%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vsdb/trading/#data","name":"VSDB trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, VSDB closed +0.12% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 5 days to then it was within \u00b10.20%. 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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: 5 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 65.0 3 active dealers of 34; largest 73% 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) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: +0.12%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.20%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 5\n Widest: +0.20%, Oct 20, 2026\n 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\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Not measured: its holdings are bonds, which have no volume source here.\n Dealers\n 3 active of 34 authorized participants; the largest did 73% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Sep 30, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Dec 10, 2025).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Jane Street Capital, LLC (73.0%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (21.3%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (5.7%). 31 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade VSDB\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. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within \u00b10.20%; 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 VSDB 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 \u00b10.20%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for VSDB? VSDB\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Sep 30, 2025, lists 34 authorized participants (APs), and 3 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Jane Street Capital, LLC (73.0%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (21.3%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (5.7%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for VSDB? VSDB\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on Cboe BZX is Citadel Securities LLC. Lead market maker per Cboe BZX, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Oct 16, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Sep 30, 2025, accession 0000836906-25-000268.\n Where to next\n VSDB 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 VSDB 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, VSDB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vsdb/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, VSDB trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vsdb/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). 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