Options levels on friday, May 17, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0980 (1945)

$1.0950 (5097)

$1.0910 (1163)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0864

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0836 (996)

$1.0809 (1555)

$1.0775 (3033)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date June, 7 is 69520 contracts (according to data from May, 16) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0900 (5097);

GBP/USD

$1.2761 (536)

$1.2718 (525)

$1.2694 (256)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2664

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2617 (273)

$1.2591 (329)

$1.2560 (956)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 7 is 16114 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2050 (1006);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 7 is 28278 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1950 (4842);

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