Futures & Options On RTS Stock Exchange: New Trading Record

On January 23, 2003, new record - 4 182 trades - was reached at FORTS (Futures & Options on RTS) derivatives market (futures traded 4,030 times, options - 152 times). The previous daily trading record of 3,785 trades as of November 26th, 2002, was exceeded by 10,5%.

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 7 years. RTS acts as the trading system and the clearinghouse on the integrated market. 80 companies headquartered in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan are FORTS registered members. They trade 7 futures contracts and 2 options