Starting from April 24, 2024, the strike step for premium options on the US dollar – Russian ruble and euro –Russian ruble currency pairs has been changed on the Moscow Stock Exchange. This is stated in the message of the exchange.
The new value of the strike step will be set to 0.5 rubles instead of 2 rubles. The change in the strike step will be applied to all new series of options, and intermediate values will be added to the current series of contracts.
Premium options for the US dollar – Russian ruble and euro–Russian ruble currency pairs were launched on the futures market in July 2023.
About 200 derivatives are traded on the Moscow Exchange derivatives market: stock and currency options, futures contracts and options on them, the underlying assets of which are stock indices, stocks, currency pairs, precious and industrial metals, oil, gas and other goods, interest rates.
