Options levels on tuesday, December 19, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1072 (1507)

$1.1038 (2092)

$1.0990 (1404)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0933

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0899 (1129)

$1.0869 (3017)

$1.0832 (823)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 86634 contracts (according to data from December, 18) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0800 (11696);

GBP/USD

$1.2780 (502)

$1.2747 (735)

$1.2696 (1894)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2658

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2617 (442)

$1.2600 (1974)

$1.2579 (186)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 5 is 7823 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 13134 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1974);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.68 versus 1.73 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 18

* - 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.