365 Contracts on Brent Oil Option Traded during First Trading Day
OREANDA-NEWS. October 20, 2010. October 18, 2010 was the first trading day for options on Brent oil futures contract on FORTS.
Trading volume of the options amounted to 365 contracts, while the volume of open interest reached 702 contracts. In total trading participants executed 45 trades on this new instrument.
For comparison, on the first trading day of EUR/USD FX options market participants executed just 10 trades with volume of 117 contracts.
Traders preferences were given to put options. Open interest volume of this type of options totaled 524 contracts while open interest volume on call options reached only 178 contracts. A high interest in put options normally indicates demand by oil market traders for a hedge against an oil price fall.
FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, is the leading trading venue for futures and options in
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