Trading volumes of RUB/USD and EUR/USD FX futures contracts traded on FORTS grew by 171.9% and 158.6% respectively in the 1st quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year. Such growth allowed the Futures Industry Association, one of the largest world independent derivatives agency, to award the contracts the title of fastest growing contracts on currency pairs globally.
These two instruments of the RTS derivatives market money section took 3rd and 8th places in the TOP-10 of the most liquid currency contracts in the world. Over the first three months of 2011, trading volume in the RUB/USD and EUR/USD FX futures contracts amounted to 29,187,432 and 9,325,589 contracts respectively.
RTS Index futures and Brent Oil futures also remain among the most liquid global derivatives instruments. According to the research the RTS Index futures ranks 7th among the TOP-10 most liquid instruments on indices, and the Brent Oil futures was placed in 14th ranking positions in the TOP-20 contracts on energy assets.
Evidently, FORTS, the futures and options market of RTS, is one of the largest trading venues worldwide trading derivatives financial instruments and was among the TOP-10 global derivatives exchanges in the 1st quarter 2011.
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