Options levels on thursday, August 22, 2024

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1251 (9693)

$1.1206 (6537)

$1.1185 (3057)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1143

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1069 (1616)

$1.1031 (1162)

$1.0990 (742)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 103261 contracts (according to data from August, 21) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1200 (9693);

GBP/USD

$1.3210 (1677)

$1.3183 (1054)

$1.3145 (653)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3088

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3027 (932)

$1.2998 (146)

$1.2947 (389)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 6 is 20303 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 16874 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1701);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.83 versus 0.79 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 21

* - 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.