OREANDA-NEWS. On October 25, 2007, on FORTS (Futures and Options on RTS), was registered a record trading volume of futures on RTS Index. On a single trading day the total trading volume of this derivative was 29 billion rubles or 269, 462 contracts, RTS' press service reports. The previous record in trading volume of futures on RTS Index was registered on October 17, 2007 and made up 28,7 billion rubles.
 
The trading volume on FORTS in 2006 exceeded 100 bln dollars. All in all there were made more than 5 mln trades with 89,6 mln contracts. Average daily open interest on standard contracts in 2006 grew by 259,5% in rubles and in December reached 5 bln dollars.