OREANDA-NEWS. On 14 July 2008 was announced, that on July 9th, 2008 there were 13 532 trades for a total \\\\$734,772,917 executed on FORTS in the evening trading session which equaled 37.9% of the FORTS daily trading volume.

The highest demand was shown for the RTS Index futures contract. The number of trades in this instrument reached 10,269 which is 49,124 contracts or almost 5.04 billion roubles in money terms.

The largest trading volume was reported for the option contract on the RTS Index futures – 8.33 billion roubles or 103,619 contracts. The number of trades in this instrument reached 202.

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 64 contracts (46 futures and 18 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  roubles 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.