{"id":92492,"date":"2026-11-04T06:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2026\/the-cftc-cleared-perpetual-futures-on-individual-u-s-stocks-to-trade-on-registered-exchanges-for-the-first-time.html"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:44:34","slug":"the-cftc-cleared-perpetual-futures-on-individual-u-s-stocks-to-trade-on-registered-exchanges-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2026\/the-cftc-cleared-perpetual-futures-on-individual-u-s-stocks-to-trade-on-registered-exchanges-for-the-first-time.html","title":{"rendered":"The CFTC Cleared Perpetual Futures on Individual U.S. Stocks to Trade on Registered Exchanges for the First Time:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2026-11-04-perps-hero.jpg\" alt=\"The CFTC Cleared Perpetual Futures on Individual U.S. Stocks to Trade on Registered Exchanges for the First Time\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Perpetual futures contracts on individual U.S. stocks can now trade on CFTC-registered exchanges, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said on Tuesday. The contracts, which he called Equity Perps, were deemed approved under CFTC Regulation 40.3 as security futures products under the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Because they are security futures, the contracts sit under both regulators. An exchange must be a CFTC designated contract market and must also be notice-registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a national securities exchange for security futures. The products are subject to the Commodity Exchange Act and the federal securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>Perpetual futures have no expiry date, so a trader can hold a position without rolling it, and they often carry high leverage. They became the dominant instrument on offshore crypto venues. Earlier this year the CFTC approved the first bitcoin perpetual on a regulated U.S. exchange, and Selig framed the equity step as part of a push to bring such products onshore rather than leave U.S. traders to unregulated venues.<\/p>\n<p>Kalshi went live with several contracts the same day, Bloomberg reported, and an industry group has already sued to challenge the decision. Reuters noted that CME sued the CFTC in June over its earlier approval of crypto perpetuals at Kalshi and Coinbase, arguing the agency exceeded its authority, which the CFTC rejected.<\/p>\n<p>For hedge funds, the change opens a new listed route to levered single-stock exposure that trades around the clock, competing with swaps and options. How much institutional volume follows will depend on margin terms, clearing, and whether the legal challenges hold up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Perpetual futures contracts on individual U.S. stocks can now trade on CFTC-registered exchanges, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said on \u2026 <a class=\"continue_reading_link btn btn-mini\" href=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2026\/the-cftc-cleared-perpetual-futures-on-individual-u-s-stocks-to-trade-on-registered-exchanges-for-the-first-time.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":92491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16282],"tags":[8275,17272,17270,17181,17189,17271],"class_list":["post-92492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto","tag-cftc","tag-derivatives-regulation","tag-equity-perps","tag-kalshi","tag-perpetual-futures","tag-security-futures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}