Options levels on friday, August 9, 2024

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1050 (1752)

$1.1001 (4597)

$1.0958 (4754)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0923

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0898 (1094)

$1.0849 (1152)

$1.0800 (3146)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 92922 contracts (according to data from August, 8) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (8089);

GBP/USD

$1.2901 (293)

$1.2851 (461)

$1.2804 (372)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2760

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2734 (661)

$1.2696 (250)

$1.2650 (556)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 9 is 9220 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2750 (701);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 14653 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (3483);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.59 versus 1.81 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 8

* - 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.