On February 8, 2011 FORTS, the futures and options market of RTS, saw a record high in trading volume since its launch.
By the end of the day, the total trading volume of futures and options on RTS amounted to USD7,823,957,498. Out of this number USD7,314,275,292 made up the futures trading volume.
Trading volume of the most popular instrument of the Russian stock market, futures on the RTS Index totaled USD5,587,000,698 (RUB164,084,064,787).
The previous trading record on FORTS was fixed on January 27, 2011, when trading volume of derivatives amounted to USD7,491,274,638.