OREANDA-NEWS. August 13, 2007. On the Futures and Options on RTS market (FORTS) the trading volume made up 1, 84 billion rubles, which is equal to 884 051 contracts. This is an absolute record in a daily trading volume on the Derivatives market FORTS. The previous record trading volume was registered on June 15, 2007 and made up 45,590 billion rubles.

Besides, on August 10, 2007 on the Derivatives market FORTS there was registered a record number of open positions – 6, 5 million, which is equal to 237 billion rubles.

Derivatives market of RTS – FORTS is a leading trading ground for futures and options in Russia. Trading on FORTS started in September 2001. At present FORTS has the widest in Russian range of instruments. These are 56 contracts (37 futures and 19 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, oil products and gold.

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.