Trading the international small cap space can be much trickier than trading say the likes of large cap oriented EFA (iShares MSCI EAFE, Expense Ratio 0.34%) and EEM (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets, Expense Ratio 0.67%), as published liquidity even in the largest funds in the space like an SCZ can often be scarce (perhaps several hundred shares in the quote visually up a few levels) and bid/ask spreads will often tend to be wider than the mainstream large cap ETFs.
Due to the nature of the underlying securities being small-caps and harder to trade in their own right, these additional costs of entry and exit in trading should be expected as part of the cost of doing business when getting exposure to the international small caps.
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