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Perpetual funding rate in 2020

What traders holding long perpetual futures paid those holding shorts, annualised, since 2019.

Perpetual funding rate, annualised opened 2020 at 6.2% (January 1, 2020) and closed at 44.6% (December 31, 2020), up 618.1%. The high was 63.9% on February 14, 2020 and the low -141.9% on March 18, 2020.

Perpetual funding rate, annualised, month by month in 2020

MonthMonth end
January 202034.2%
February 202031.0%
March 2020-13.8%
April 2020-0.5%
May 2020-1.4%
June 2020-0.1%
July 202045.5%
August 20209.6%
September 20202.6%
October 20204.6%
November 202036.7%
December 202044.6%

A perpetual future has no expiry, so it is held to the spot price by a payment between longs and shorts every eight hours. When the rate is positive, longs pay shorts: the market is leaning long and paying for it. Negative means shorts are paying longs to stay short.

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