CTA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Simplify Managed Futures Strategy ETF | ARCA:CTA)

The Simplify Managed Futures Strategy ETF (CTA) seeks long term capital appreciation by systematically investing in futures in an attempt to create an absolute return profile, that also has low correlation to equities, and can provide support in risk-off events. To this end, CTA deploys a suite of systematic models that have been designed by Altis Partners, a commodity trading advisor with over 20 years of experience.

Simplify Managed Futures Strategy ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol CTA.

As of December 18, 2025, CTA stock price climbed to $27.23 with 388,478 million shares trading.

CTA has a beta of -0.04, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CTA has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CTA has a market cap of $1.20 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, CTA traded as high as $30.21 and as low as $23.20.

CTA has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +0.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. In the last 3 month period, CTA fell short of the market, returning +0.1%, while SPY returned +2.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks CTA has outperformed the stock market by returning +0.9%, while SPY returned -1.1%.

CTA support price is $26.86 and resistance is $27.24 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CTA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.