OREANDA-NEWS. On 05 June 2009 was announced, that June 2, 2009 saw a number of records on FORTS, RTS derivatives section.

By the end of the main trading session the trading volume in futures contracts on FORTS totalled USD 2,745,891,419 or 3,312,015 contracts.

The previous record was reported on January 17, 2009 when the volume of trading in futures contracts reached USD 2,552,582,157.

A record trading volume in contracts was registered the same day on FORTS – 3,400,810 contracts against 2,767,859 registered on June 9, 2008.

FORTS members also executed a record number of trades on June 2, 2009 – 374,797 trades compared to 349,466 trades made on May 13, 2009.

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, gas, sugar and gold.