OREANDA-NEWS. On 17 August 2009 was announced, that on August 12, 2009 a record number of trades in the USD/RUR futures contract were executed on FORTS.

By the end of the main trading session the market participants entered into 17,093 trades.

The previous record was set on January 20, 2009 when the number of trades in this instrument reached 15,923.

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, oil products, sugar and gold.