Futures contracts traded 14 184 times, down from 16 541 times the previous week. Futures total trading volume reached 672 thousand contracts, down from 807 thousand contracts traded the previous week, or 4 175 million rubles in underlying value, compared with 5 123 million rubles for the previous week.
FORTS options trading volume equaled 40 thousand contracts or 269 million rubles in underlying value, compared with the previous week's 58 thousand contracts and 349 million rubles. 898 transactions with options were executed, down from 1 010 transactions the week before.
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. 84 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 7 futures contracts and 2 options.