Futures & Options On The RTS Stock Exchange Derivatives Market Weekly Data

For the week of June 28th – July 2nd, 2004, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 880 thousand contracts and 6 554 million rubles. Total open interest as of July 2nd, 2004, equaled 5 552 million rubles and 725 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. 81 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 8 futures contracts and 3 options.