RTS-FORTS: Time Of Intermediate Clearing Session Is Reduced

Starting from February 11th, 2008 OJSC "Russian Trading System "Stock Exchange" reduces the time of intermediate clearing session on futures and options market – FORTS.

The time of the intermediate clearing session is reduced from 5 to 3 minutes.

Derivatives market of RTS – FORTS is a leading trading ground for futures and options in Russia. Trading on FORTS started in September 2001. At present FORTS has the widest range of instruments in Russia. These are 63 contracts (44 futures and 19 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, gas, oil, sugar and gold.
The trading volume on FORTS in 2007 grew threefold and made up 297,41 bln dollars or144,9 contracts . Comparing with 2006 the number of trades increased more than twofold and reached 11,7mln. Total volume of open interest for the end of the year equaled 141,7 rubles in cash or 3,2 contracts. The highest intra-day trading volume on FORTS was registered at the level of 5,2 bln dollars.