Futures & Options On The RTS Derivatives Market - Weekly Data

For the week of August 9th – August 13th, 2004, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) increased by 8% in rubles and 9% in contracts and reached 4 027 million rubles and 573 thousand contracts. Total open interest as of August 13th, 2004, increased by 4% in rubles and 4% in contracts and qualled 6 505 million rubles and 869 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. 84 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 8 futures contracts and 3 options.