Yuriy Shterk, Vice President of Product Development, CQG: "RTS is one of the most active exchanges in the world and is an important market for both local and foreign traders."

CQG, Inc., the order execution, charting, and analytics provider for electronically-traded securities markets, has enhanced its Russian offering to include spreading of FORTS, the futures and options component of the Russian Trading System Stock Exchange (RTS), and low-latency trade routing to RTS Standard, the equity market for Russian securities.

Spread traders can now create, trade, and manage both inter- and intra-exchange spread strategies for FORTS products via the server-side CQG Spreader, CQG's industry-leading, low-latency spreader product. CQG's hosted trading gateway provides traders with access to RTS Standard. CQG customers can route orders to the exchange using the CQG Integrated Client and CQG Trader platforms.

"Adding spreading capabilities and additional connectivity to Russian markets is part of our continued strategy to provide traders access to global markets," said Yuriy Shterk, Vice President of Product Development, CQG. "RTS is one of the most active exchanges in the world and is an important market for both local and foreign traders."

CQG previously offered trade routing and market data for FORTS. The trading connection to RTS Standard is the latest addition to a growing list of exchanges to which CQG provides Direct Market Access.