OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2007. On FORTS (Futures and Options on RTS) there 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.

The previous record in trading volume of futures on RTS Index was registered on October 17, 2007 and made up 28,7 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 58 contracts (39 futures and 19 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, gas oil, gold and sugar.

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.