Futures & Options On The RTS Derivatives Market: September 13th - September 17th, 2004

For the week of September 13th – September 17th, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 6 377 million rubles and 785 thousand contracts. Total open interest as of September 17th, 2004, equaled 4 631 million rubles and 57 thousand contracts.

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. 85 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 8 futures contracts and 3 options.