OREANDA-NEWS. On the Futures and Options on RTS market (FORTS) a new record in trading volume was registered. By the trading results of the day, the trading volume made up 67,36 billion rubles, which exceeds 2,7 billion dollars. The previous record trading volume was registered on October 18, 2007 and made up 61,56 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 Russia 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, oil products and gold.

The trading volume on FORTS for the period of 9 months in 2007 exceeded 166 bln 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 reached 8 bln dollars.