OREANDA-NEWS. On November 12, 2007, on FORTS (Futures and Options on RTS) there was registered a record trading volume of futures on RTS Index. For a single trading day the total trading volume of this derivative amounted to 39 billion rubles or 353, 048 contracts, the RTS press service reports. The previous record in trading volume of futures on RTS Index was registered on November 1, 2007 and made up 37,5 billion rubles or 336, 468 contracts.

The trading volume on FORTS for the period of 9 months in 2007 exceeded 166 bn dollars. From January to September 2007, there were made more than 7,2 mln trades with 93,5 mln contracts. Average daily open interest on standard contracts in 2007 grew by 102,6% and in September 2007 reached 8 bn dollars.