FORTS members executed 13 455 trades in futures contracts. Futures contracts trading volume totaled 623 thousand contracts, or 2 641 million rubles in underlying value.
The number of trades executed in options reached 456. FORTS options trading volume equaled 14.7 thousand contracts or 55 million rubles in underlying value.
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 6 futures contracts and 2 options.
