The evening trading session on FORTS is held from 19.00 to 23.50 Moscow time. All range of instruments is traded during this trading session. The clearing for trades, which were concluded during this trading session, is held at 14.00 of the following business day during intraday clearing session.
The evening trading session provides opportunities for all categories of investors to realize a lot of different strategies and to protect their investments in Russian assets during abrupt fluctuations on the international markets.
Advantages for investors:
- To win back the world’s news which means to even morning gaps
- To win price forming for commodities
- To realize arbitrage strategies with international commodity and securities markets
- To hedge investments in Russian equities that are traded in the form of ADR and GDR at all international exchanges
- To trade currency and to hedge currency risks in the evening time
- To combine working in the office with doing investments on the securities market
Advantages for brokers:
- Increase of clients’ loyalty
- Increase of number of clients by attracting foreign and private investors which couldn’t combine investing and working before
- Increase of clients’ activity and as a result the amount of brokerage fees
- Enhancement of competitive positions against brokers on FOREX market
- Opportunity to have evening trading classes on the real market
- Opportunity to train professional staff (traders, brokers, risk-managers, market-makers, dealers) on the real but more calm market
Schedule of trading on FORTS
| 10.00 - 14.00 |
Beginning of the main trading session |
| 14.00 - 14.03 |
Intraday clearing session |
| 14.03 - 18.45 |
Ending of the main trading session |
| 18.45 - 19.00 |
Evening clearing session |
| 19.00 - 23.50 |
Evening additional trading session |
Information on evening trading session with a 15-minute delay
