Options levels on monday, December 18, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1036 (2034)

$1.0984 (1404)

$1.0958 (451)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0917

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0858 (2988)

$1.0824 (824)

$1.0784 (11677)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 86192 contracts (according to data from December, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0800 (11677);

GBP/USD

$1.2834 (456)

$1.2801 (502)

$1.2774 (735)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2689

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2624 (1974)

$1.2596 (188)

$1.2525 (524)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 5 is 7605 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2600 (1894);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 13119 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1974);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.73 versus 1.80 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 15

* - 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.