CDX - Simplify High Yield ETF
The Simplify High Yield ETF (CDX) seeks to maximize current income by investing primarily in high-yield bonds while mitigating credit risk. CDX is designed to provide core high yield exposure, with its attractive income, while simultaneously deploying a host of compelling and flexible credit hedge techniques. The primary hedge in CDX is a Quality-Junk factor-based hedge, although CDX will opportunistically invest in CDX calls and equity puts based on cost-to-payout ratios.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Bonds
- Market Cap
- $363.2M
- Beta
- 0.56
- 52-Week Range
- 21.07-23.383
- Dividend Yield
- $1.76
- IPO Date
- Feb 17, 2022
- Exchange
- AMEX
CDX Options Snapshot
Options pricing data for CDX is refreshed daily after the close. When listed contracts exist, this page surfaces the latest at-the-money implied volatility, max pain strike, dealer gamma exposure (GEX), and 25-delta skew. Listed contracts and live snapshots appear once the options chain has been published by the exchange for the most recent session.
What This Page Covers
The CDX overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure.
Frequently asked CDX overview questions
- What is CDX?
- CDX is the ticker symbol for Simplify High Yield ETF, an listed exchange-traded fund. The Simplify High Yield ETF (CDX) seeks to maximize current income by investing primarily in high-yield bonds while mitigating credit risk. CDX is designed to provide core high yield exposure, with its attractive income, while simultaneously deploying a host of compelling and flexible credit hedge techniques. Listed on AMEX. CDX is the ETF ticker shown on this page; ETF traders use the fund for diversified exposure to its underlying basket, for sector and factor rotation, and for hedging or replication strategies via the listed options chain.
- What are CDX's key statistics?
- Simplify High Yield ETF (CDX) carries a market capitalization of $363.2M, 52-week range of 21.07-23.383. Full holdings disclosure, expense ratio, and tracking-error history live on the per-ticker fundamentals page or the sponsor's site; daily NAV and premium/discount-to-NAV are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the ETF options market prices implied volatility relative to its constituents.
- What sector or industry does CDX belong to?
- Simplify High Yield ETF operates in the Financial Services sector, in the Asset Management - Bonds industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare CDX's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the CDX data on this page?
- Options snapshots refresh after each trading session; if no snapshot is currently posted for CDX, it usually reflects low options liquidity or a recently listed name. Fund-level fields (sponsor, expense ratio, holdings concentration where available) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. ETF-specific filings (N-CSR, N-PX, N-CEN) update on the SEC EDGAR cadence. FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence; for ETFs the off-exchange volume signal is dominated by authorized-participant creation and redemption rather than directional flow.