OREANDA-NEWS. May 5, 2010. For the week of April 26 – April 30, 2010 the total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on RTS) equaled 598.5 billion rubles or 11.7 million contracts, including 108.3 billion rubles during the evening trading session. The total open interest as of the last day of the week, April 30, 2010 reached 175.3 billion rubles or 7.12 million contracts.

RTS Group and Saint Petersburg Exchange have launched a cash-settled gasoil futures contract. For the week of April 26-30 the trading volume in this instrument reached RUB39.5 million or 2,400 contracts.

 

Week
April 26 – April 30

Week
April 19 – April 23

Change, %

Futures contracts

Trading volume, rubles

574,294,892,780

586,961,472,124

-2.16%

Trading volume, contracts

11,096,954

11,334,304

-2.09%

Number of trades

2,243,505

2,278,031

-1.52%

Total open interest, rubles

107,940,773,088

102,678,367,907

5.13%

Total open interest, contracts

4,039,806

3,704,612

9.05%

Options Contracts

Trading volume, rubles

24,183,064,922

18,366,576,691

31.67%

Trading volume, contracts

586,671

552,524

6.18%

Number of trades

27,984

26,143

7.04%

Total open interest, rubles

67,318,118,053

59,023,674,855

14.05%

Total open interest, contracts

3,083,122

2,807,846

9.80%

Total

Trading volume, rubles

598,477,957,701

605,328,048,815

-1.13%

Trading volume, contracts

11,683,625

11,886,828

-1.71%

Number of trades

2,271,489

2,304,174

-1.42%

Total open interest, rubles

175,258,891,141

161,702,042,762

8.38%

Futures contracts

7,122,928

6,512,458

9.37%

FORTS contracts by volume (26.04.10 –30.04.10)

No

Code

Contract

Turnover

RUB

Contracts

1

RI

Cash-settled futures contract on RTS Index

460,585,746,689

5,059,532

2

Si

Cash-settled futures contract on USD/RUB exchange rate

28,810,680,116

979,389

3

SR

Deliverable futures contract on Sberbank ordinary shares

21,579,012,157

2,636,523

4

ED

Cash-settled futures contract on EUR/USD exchange rate

21,191,842,001

547,233

5

GZ

Deliverable futures contract on Gazprom ordinary shares

17,633,457,782

1,020,978

6

RS

Cash-settled futures contract on RTS Standard Index

8,838,529,445

90,217

7

BR

Cash-settled Brent oil futures contract

5,820,959,685

229,334

8

LK

Deliverable futures contract on LUKOIL ordinary shares

4,278,850,535

260,823

9

GM

Deliverable futures contract on MMC NORILSK NICKEL ordinary shares

1,772,155,524

32,397

10

GD

Cash-settled futures contract on gold

1,124,747,305

32,976

11

RN

Deliverable futures contract on Rosneft ordinary shares

590,318,061

24,701

12

VB

Deliverable futures contract on VTB Bank ordinary shares

500,501,854

63,873

13

SP

Deliverable futures contract on Sberbank preferred shares

426,966,079

71,861

14

Eu

Cash-settled futures contract on EUR/RUB exchange rate

316,872,879

8,127

15

SV

Cash-settled futures contract on refined silver

303,268,462

5,666

16

TN

Deliverable futures contract on Transneft preferred shares

264,198,566

8,229

17

SN

Deliverable futures contract on Surgutneftegas ordinary shares

69,314,171

2,477

18

PT

Cash-settled futures contract on platinum

44,899,917

889

19

HY

Deliverable futures contract on RusHydro ordinary shares

40,710,410

2,438

20

MP

Cash-settled futures contract on average rate of the three month MosPrime credit

34,703,000

2,860

21

SU

Deliverable futures contract on granulated sugar, produced in accordance with all-Union State Standard 21-94

20,946,500

187

22

UI

Deliverable futures contract on Uralsvyazinform ordinary shares

15,695,166

14,719

23

PZ

Deliverable futures contract on Polyus Gold ordinary shares

13,278,025

944

24

CH

Deliverable futures contract on Severstal ordinary shares

9,909,985

253

25

MT

Deliverable futures contract on MTS ordinary shares

5,737,011

225

26

TT

Deliverable futures contract on Tatneft ordinary shares

984,933

70

27

NK

Deliverable futures contract on NOVATEK ordinary shares

545,137

29

28

Rc

Cash-settled futures contract on RTS Consumer & Retail Index

37,800

2

29

Ro

Cash-settled futures contract on RTS Oil & Gas Index

23,583

2

30

RI

Futures-style options on RTS Index futures contract

16,874,132,652

188,939

31

Si

Futures-style options on USD/RUB exchange rate futures contract

4,064,729,500

124,618

32

SR

Options on Sberbank futures contract

1,339,116,250

166,870

33

GZ

Options on Gazprom futures contract

1,046,704,000

58,383

34

LK

Options on LUKOIL futures contract

810,128,000

46,549

35

GD

Futures-style options on gold futures contract

36,170,145

1,060

36

GM

Futures-style options on MMC NORILSK NICKEL futures contract

9,550,000

170

37

SV

Futures-style options on refined silver futures contract

1,795,124

46

38

TN

Futures-style options on futures contract on Transneft preferred shares

584,000

16

39

VB

Futures-style options on VTB Bank futures contract

155,250

20

 

 

Total

598,477,957,701

11,683,625