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FORTS Weekly Trading Results: January 16th – January 20th, 2006

Date 24/01/2006

For the week of January 16th – January 20th, 2006, the total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on RTS) reached 33,64 billion rubles or 1,4 million contracts, up 75,8% and 68,4% compared the last week (19,14 billion rubles and 839 contracts). The total open interest at of the last day of the week, January 20th, 2006, reached 39,87 billon rubles or 1.75 million contacts, 32,5% and 31,2% up on the data shown January 13th, 2006.

  Previous Week,
January 10th –
January 13th, 2006
The week of
January 16th –
January 20th, 2006
Change, %
Futures Contacts
Trading volume, rubles 16 912 891 229 30 038 185 302 77,61%
Trading volume, contracts 727 829 1 225 709 68,41%
Number of trades 35 905 56 372 57,00%
Total open interest, rubles 19 642 262 566 23 669 792 875 20,50%
Total open interest, contracts 957 296 1 140 534 19,14%
Options Contracts
Trading volume, rubles 2 227 084 355 3 602 756 150 61,77%
Trading volume, contracts 111 221 187 626 68,70%
Number of trades 2 605 2 294 -11,94%
Total open interest, rubles 7 416 695 400 12 199 955 740 64,49%
Total open interest, contracts 379 456 613 858 61,77%
Total
Trading volume, rubles 19 139 975 584 33 640 941 452 75,76%
Trading volume, contracts 839 050 1 413 335 68,44%
Number of trades 38 510 58 666 52,34%
Total open interest, rubles 27 058 957 966 35 869 748 615 32,56%
Total open interest, contracts 1 336 752 1 754 392 31,24%

FORTS Trading Volume: January 16th – January 20th, 2006

Contract Trading Volume
Rubles contracts
1 "Gazprom" single stock futures 9 598 120 742 410 347
2 "LUKOil" single stock futures 8 787 785 485 420 370
3 RTS Index futures 7 947 348 388 114 762
4 "RAO UES of Russia" single stock futures 3 050 485 130 231 739
5 Options on "LUK o il" futures 2 088 608 500 115 867
6 Options on "Gazprom" futures 643 142 000 27 170
7 Options on "RAO UES of Russia" futures 515 770 000 39 433
8 Options on RTS Index futures 355 194 150 5 153
9 3-year Moscow City Bonds futures 273 655 070 25 032
10 "Rostelecom" single stock futures 103 465 593 15 388
11 "Surgutneftegaz" single stock futures 94 399 454 2 628
12 "Savings Bank of the Russian Federation" single stock futures 89 362 304 2 026
13 USD/RUR exchange rate futures 80 830 882 2 860
14 "MMC Norilsk Nickel" single stock futures 12 732 254 557
15 Options on USD/RUR exchange rate futures 27 500 1
16 Options on "Rostelecom" single stock futures 14 000 2
  Total 33 640 941 452 1 413 335

FORTS, a unified derivatives market operating since September 19, 2001, is based on trading and settlement technologies and software that were implemented at and have been successfully used by St. Petersburg Stock Exchange for 8 years. RTS acts as the trading system and the clearinghouse on the integrated market. 92 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan. FORTS participants trade 10 futures contracts and 6 options.