Futures And Options On RTS Market – FORTS Has Reached The Age Of 5

Five years ago on FORTS (Futures and Options on RTS) the trading began. In the beginning of FORTS work the average open interest was only 62,5 thousand contracts and average daily turnover – 28 thousand contracts.

For the period of five years FORTS has become a leading Russian derivatives market. It is one of the main world grounds for derivatives trading. The current open interest on futures and options in FORTS is about 3 million contracts, and average daily trading volume is about 500 million dollars US.

At present on FORTS market the futures and options are in circulation, whose basic assets are shares of the Russian companies, RTS Index, bonds, currency, interest rate of a ruble overnight credit (deposit) MosIBOR, oil of Urals brand and gold.