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Perpetual Futures Pricing

Ackerer, Damieb
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Hugonnier, Julien  
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Jermann, Urban
November 20, 2025
Mathematical Finance

Perpetual futures are contracts without expiration date in which the anchoring of the futures price to the spot price is ensured by periodic funding payments from long to short. We derive explicit expressions for the no‐arbitrage price of various perpetual contracts, including linear, inverse, and quantos futures in both discrete and continuous‐time. In particular, we show that the futures price is given by the risk‐neutral expectation of the spot sampled at a random time that reflects the intensity of the price anchoring. Furthermore, we identify funding specifications that guarantee the coincidence of futures and spot prices, and show that for such specifications perpetual futures, contracts can be replicated by dynamic trading in primitive securities.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/mafi.70018
Author(s)
Ackerer, Damieb

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Hugonnier, Julien  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jermann, Urban
Date Issued

2025-11-20

Publisher

Wiley

Published in
Mathematical Finance
Article Number

mafi.70018

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REVIEWED

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SFI-JH  
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November 24, 2025
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