Options levels on thursday, July 18, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1043 (3936)

$1.0998 (1664)

$1.0978 (1074)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0929

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0901 (58)

$1.0870 (2094)

$1.0833 (580)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 73296 contracts (according to data from July, 17) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (8130);

GBP/USD

$1.3144 (447)

$1.3113 (671)

$1.3087 (236)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2990

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2895 (111)

$1.2861 (23)

$1.2823 (264)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 9 is 9787 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2750 (3503);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 11790 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (3514);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.20 versus 1.21 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 17

* - 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.