Options levels on thursday, May 2, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0811 (3032)

$1.0780 (917)

$1.0762 (484)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0716

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0687 (1994)

$1.0645 (1995)

$1.0599 (1484)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 3 is 56612 contracts (according to data from May, 1) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0750 (8975);

GBP/USD

$1.2618 (672)

$1.2587 (175)

$1.2568 (54)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2537

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2481 (15005)

$1.2442 (547)

$1.2397 (1983)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 3 is 16567 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2900 (3078);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date May, 3 is 35953 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2500 (15005);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 2.17 versus 2.14 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 1

* - 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.