OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2010. In accordance with the resolution issued by the Derivatives Market Committee, gold futures and Brent futures spreads between the current and the next contract month which have an inter-month spread coefficient set at 1 will be available on FORTS starting from January 13, 2010.

FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, is the 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 50 contracts (33 futures and 17 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short term interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, diesel oil, sugar and gold. The currency contracts trade the quarterly Mar, June, Sept, Dec cycle.