Options levels on wednesday, August 21, 2024

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1206 (6161)

$1.1182 (6926)

$1.1164 (2773)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1116

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1053 (1521)

$1.1021 (1162)

$1.0982 (769)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 100988 contracts (according to data from August, 20) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1200 (9761);

GBP/USD

$1.3095 (653)

$1.3076 (1224)

$1.3062 (815)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3020

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2966 (143)

$1.2925 (400)

$1.2873 (84)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 6 is 20135 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 15861 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1701);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.79 versus 0.84 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 20

* - 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.