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Trade Cost Estimator

The fee table says 0.03%; the fill says otherwise. For a real order size, this instrument reads the tape — how much of the day’s volume you are, what the spread likely takes, and when the right move is a phone call, not a market order.

Volume & price are primary data · spread is a liquidity-band model, stated as an estimate

FundOrderTry:SPY $2MDIVO $2M
$54Mtypical dollars traded per day
1.8%your order vs the daily tape
~4bpspread band · ≈$200 on this order
limit ordersthe desk’s read
IXN · $1,000,000 orderNoticeable against the tape. Use limit orders and avoid the open and close auctions.

ISHARES GLOBAL TECH ETF · LAST $139.00 · AVG VOLUME 390K SHARES · ETF LIQUIDITY IS DEEPER THAN THE SCREEN — AUTHORIZED PARTICIPANTS CAN CREATE SHARES AGAINST THE UNDERLYING BOOK, WHICH IS WHY THE ISSUER’S CAPITAL-MARKETS DESK EXISTS

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