Futures & Options On the RTS Stock Exchange Derivatives Market Weekly Statistics

For the week of March 28th – April 1st, 2005, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 6 187 million rubles and 732 thousand contracts. Total open interest as of April 1st, 2005, increased by 20% in rubles and 22% in contracts and equaled 13 398 million rubles and 1 560 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. 87 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 9 futures contracts and 3 options.