OREANDA-NEWS. April 8, 2011. For the week of March 28 - April 1, 2011 the total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on RTS) equaled 824.30 billion rubles or 14.81 million contracts, including 75.44 billion rubles during the evening trading session. The total open interest as of the last day of the week, April 1, 2011 reached 307.48 billion rubles or 6.45 million contracts.

Last week the trading volume in the cash-settled gasoil futures contract that was launched by RTS Group and Saint Petersburg Exchange reached RUB60.32 million or 2.64 thousand contracts. The trading volume in the power futures contract that was introduced by RTS Group and Moscow Energy Exchange reached RUB173.02 million or 5.39 thousand contracts.

 

Week

March 28 - April 1

Week

March 21-25

Change, %

Futures contracts

Trading volume, rubles

759,024,492,654

856,520,548,888

-11.38%

Trading volume, contracts

14,069,917

16,208,577

-13.19%

Number of trades

2,736,528

3,249,761

-15.79%

Total open interest, rubles

189,138,685,973

173,844,771,383

8.80%

Total open interest, contracts

4,780,402

4,344,108

10.04%

Options Contracts

Trading volume, rubles

65,274,889,596

60,607,635,445

7.70%

Trading volume, contracts

736,906

715,818

2.95%

Number of trades

68,755

77,070

-10.79%

Total open interest, rubles

118,342,590,943

95,523,587,367

23.89%

Total open interest, contracts

1,665,794

1,368,836

21.69%

Total

Trading volume, rubles

824,299,382,250

917,128,184,333

-10.12%

Trading volume, contracts

14,806,823

16,924,395

-12.51%

Number of trades

2,805,283

3,326,831

-15.68%

Total open interest, rubles

307,481,276,917

269,368,358,750

14.15%

Total open interest, contracts

6,446,196

5,712,944

12.83%