Options levels on friday, July 19, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1025 (3965)

$1.0970 (1679)

$1.0943 (1074)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0886

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0859 (2099)

$1.0825 (688)

$1.0786 (6185)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 74582 contracts (according to data from July, 18) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (8126);

GBP/USD

$1.3089 (668)

$1.3057 (236)

$1.3009 (294)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2933

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2874 (111)

$1.2845 (23)

$1.2812 (264)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 9 is 9786 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2750 (3503);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 12022 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (3514);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.23 versus 1.20 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 18

* - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange bulletin (CME) is used for the calculation.

** - Open interest takes into account the total number of option contracts that are open at the moment.