The Trading Volume On FORTS Reached Its Historic Maximum And Exceeded 4,5 Billion Rubles

According to the results of the trading session on August 16, 2005, total trading volume on FORTS reached its historic maximum and equaled 4,6 billion rubles (162 million dollars). The new record went beyond the previous one, which was set on August 3, 2005, by 34,5% (3 , 41 billion rubles).

The top selling contracts were: RTS Index futures (41,8% of the total turnover), "LUKoil" (24%) futures and RAO "UES of Russia" (11,2%) futures were on the 2 nd and 3 rd places respectively.

The volume of open interest is also gradually going up. Historic maximum was renewed on August 16 and amounted to 2,03 million contracts. The previous record was set on August 15 and equaled to 2,01 million contracts.