Options levels on tuesday, April 16, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0744 (208)

$1.0697 (96)

$1.0672 (175)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0604

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0555 (1133)

$1.0520 (3189)

$1.0480 (1419)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 3 is 50884 contracts (according to data from April, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0750 (9608);

GBP/USD

$1.2556 (73)

$1.2508 (44)

$1.2478 (159)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2419

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2391 (15596)

$1.2368 (617)

$1.2339 (502)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 3 is 12746 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2900 (3009);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date May, 3 is 31038 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2500 (15596);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 2.44 versus 2.49 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 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.