Meanings
nounperpetual futures (plural perpetual futures)
- businessA futures contract without an expiry date.
Autopsies carried out since then [Oct 2025 crypto crash] suggest that much of the damage can be traced to investors having piled into financial products known as perpetual futures.
2025 December 6, George Steer, Jill R Shah, Nikou Asgari, “Crypto’s rocky year”, in FT Weekend (Big Rea section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6Synonyms: perp
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA futures contract without an expiry date.
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