Options levels on monday, August 19, 2024

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1130 (1788)

$1.1098 (4684)

$1.1074 (3190)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1048

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0962 (723)

$1.0928 (3701)

$1.0887 (2983)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 99745 contracts (according to data from August, 16) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1200 (9730);

GBP/USD

$1.3045 (645)

$1.3017 (1223)

$1.2996 (591)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2960

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2881 (90)

$1.2852 (60)

$1.2818 (205)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 6 is 19101 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 16113 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (2693);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.84 versus 0.85 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 16

* - 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.