"OLMA" investment company traded the most actively, having come up from the sixth place in August trading activity ratings. "OLMA" was followed by 'Zenit' bank, 'Eltra' investment company and 'TRUST' and 'Solidarnost' investment banks.
'Increased trading activity and the increase in open positions in options prove that companies and their clients are increasingly interested in options", says Roman Goryunov, head of FORTS. 'FORTS market development will be related to new options contract introductions'.
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. 85 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 8 futures contracts and 3 options.
