Options levels on friday, January 5, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1055 (1505)

$1.1017 (2282)

$1.0983 (1576)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0924

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0896 (5098)

$1.0849 (980)

$1.0798 (5528)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 105983 contracts (according to data from January, 4) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0950 (6693);

GBP/USD

$1.2759 (638)

$1.2725 (777)

$1.2693 (625)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2678

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2636 (389)

$1.2596 (81)

$1.2549 (525)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 5 is 9563 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (777);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 14811 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1818);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.55 versus 1.52 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 4

* - 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.