Futures & Options On The Russian Trading System Open Interest Record

On November 6th, 2002, open interest on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) market reached the all-time high of 303 296. The previous record of 293 830 contracts was set on November 1, 2002.

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 7 years. RTS acts as the trading system and the clearinghouse on the integrated market. 80 companies headquartered in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan are FORTS registered members. They trade 6 futures contracts and 2 options.