FORTS members executed 12 705 trades in futures contracts, down from 15 082 trades the week before. Futures contracts trading volume totaled 570 thousand contracts, or 2 519 million rubles in underlying value, compared to last week's 716 thousand contracts and 3 028 million rubles in underlying value.
The number of trades executed in options reached 365. FORTS options trading volume equaled 11 thousand contracts or 43 million rubles in underlying value, compared with 16.5 thousand contracts or 63.5 million rubles last week.
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.
