Economic news
20.08.2024

Options levels on tuesday, August 20, 2024

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1187 (6255)

$1.1157 (7238)

$1.1119 (3216)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1081

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1040 (964)

$1.1012 (420)

$1.0977 (741)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 101080 contracts (according to data from August, 19) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1200 (9761);


GBP/USD

$1.3071 (653)

$1.3048 (1223)

$1.3032 (811)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3001

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2912 (400)

$1.2864 (72)

$1.2826 (205)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 6 is 19645 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 16506 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (2689);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.84 versus 0.84 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 19


* - 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.

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