Options levels on friday, August 16, 2024

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1120 (7237)

$1.1083 (4687)

$1.1053 (3204)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0985

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0941 (559)

$1.0913 (3617)

$1.0878 (7922)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 104375 contracts (according to data from August, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1200 (9731);

GBP/USD

$1.2957 (592)

$1.2931 (1200)

$1.2912 (1711)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2880

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2829 (86)

$1.2786 (204)

$1.2755 (324)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 6 is 18706 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3200 (4790);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 15819 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (2577);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.85 versus 0.83 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 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.