FORTS members executed 20 402 trades in futures contracts. Total trading volume rose to 952 thousand contracts, underlying value reached 3 890 million rubles. The previous week (October 28th-November 1st) showed 13 084 trades, 634 thousand contracts, 2 306 million in underlying value.
The number of trades executed in options went up to 1028. FORTS options trading volume increased to 111.7 million rubles in underlying value and 32.3 thousand contracts, compared to the previous week's 70.8 million rubles and 21.7 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 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.
