Options levels on thursday, May 16, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0956 (5896)

$1.0933 (2136)

$1.0917 (1176)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0879

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0838 (991)

$1.0810 (966)

$1.0776 (3033)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date June, 7 is 68360 contracts (according to data from May, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0900 (5896);

GBP/USD

$1.2796 (945)

$1.2767 (537)

$1.2726 (527)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2676

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2616 (273)

$1.2589 (330)

$1.2557 (955)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 7 is 15573 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2250 (1003);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 7 is 27722 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1950 (4842);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.78 versus 1.75 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 15

* - 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.