On May 5, 2011 by the end of the evening trading session trading volume in derivatives on FORTS, futures and options market of RTS, reached USD2,117,735,371 or RUB57,734,760,576.
By the end of the yesterday trading day trading volume in the most liquid instrument of the FORTS currency section, RUB/USD FX futures, totaled USD1,253,430,526 or RUB34,303,259,926 representing 1,251,200 contracts. 63,574 trades on this contract were executed.
In addition, the day before a new main session trading record was set on FORTS. Then the trading volume amounted to USD10,722,638,322 representing 1,251,200 contracts.
