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
$408Mtypical dollars traded per day
0.2%your order vs the daily tape
~2bpspread band · ≈$100 on this order
clean fillthe desk’s read
VWO · $1,000,000 orderA rounding error against daily volume — market or marketable-limit orders are fine.
VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS STOCK INDEX FUND · LAST $60.04 · AVG VOLUME 6.8M 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