Options levels on friday, July 12, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0960 (1577)

$1.0939 (1048)

$1.0915 (325)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0867

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0840 (2082)

$1.0811 (514)

$1.0776 (6124)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 73549 contracts (according to data from July, 11) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (8155);

GBP/USD

$1.2993 (412)

$1.2973 (290)

$1.2958 (394)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2909

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2796 (91)

$1.2762 (689)

$1.2723 (180)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 9 is 8780 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2750 (3504);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 10297 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (3529);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.17 versus 1.14 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 11

* - 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.