Options levels on tuesday, July 16, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1031 (3926)

$1.0976 (1685)

$1.0948 (1074)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0890

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0858 (2071)

$1.0824 (527)

$1.0785 (6133)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 72605 contracts (according to data from July, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (8135);

GBP/USD

$1.3073 (391)

$1.3029 (406)

$1.3002 (393)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2957

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2881 (109)

$1.2850 (22)

$1.2815 (91)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 9 is 9416 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2750 (3502);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 11240 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (3514);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.19 versus 1.17 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 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.