OREANDA-NEWS. August 14, 2007. On the Derivatives market FORTS a record trading volume of futures and options contracts on RTS Index was officially registered. By the results of the day, trading volume of index derivatives made up 295 657 contracts or 27,8 billion rubles.

The previous record in trading volume of index derivatives was registered on July 27, 2007. Then, futures and options contracts on RTS Index made up 231 541 contracts or 25 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 Russian range of instruments. These are 56 contracts (37 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 in 2006 exceeded 100 bln dollars. All in all there were made more than 5 mln trades with 89,6 mln contracts. Average daily open interest on standard contracts in 2006 grew by 259,5% in rubles and in December reached 5 bln dollars.