Futures & Options On The RTS Stock Exchange Statistics

For the week of February 14th – February 18th, 2005, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 5 853 million rubles and 702 thousand contracts. Total open interest as of February 18th, 2005, increased by 11% in rubles and 8% in contracts and equaled 12 656 million rubles and 1 496 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. 86 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 8 futures contracts and 4 options.