OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 May 2008 was announced, that a new record in the volume of open interest on contracts traded on FORTS was set. At the end of the trading session of April 30th, 2008 the volume of open interest reached 9091606 contracts or 15,59 bln. US dollars.

The previous record was registered on April 29th, 2008 with the volume of open interest on currency contracts hitting 9 000 542  contracts.

FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, is a leading trading venue for futures and options in Russia. Trading on FORTS started in September 2001. At present FORTS has the widest range of instruments in Russia. These are 66 contracts (46 futures and 20 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short term interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, gas, oil, sugar and gold.

Trading volume on FORTS in 2007 grew threefold and reached 297.41 bln dollars or 144.9 million contracts . Compared with 2006 the number of trades increased more than twofold and reached 11.7mln. Total open interest at the end of the year equalled 14.7 bln  rubles in cash or 3.2 million contracts. FORTS also saw a record day’s trading in 2007 when the value of all contracts traded reached 5.2 bln dollars on December 13th, 2007.