Options levels on friday, February 16, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0850 (3537)

$1.0809 (73)

$1.0790 (325)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0763

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0731 (2868)

$1.0705 (9302)

$1.0673 (4193)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date March, 8 is 81601 contracts (according to data from February, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0300 (11794);

GBP/USD

$1.2670 (875)

$1.2648 (127)

$1.2631 (429)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2592

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2567 (159)

$1.2528 (727)

$1.2500 (881)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 8 is 10841 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (2495);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 8 is 17026 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2400 (2773);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.57 versus 1.54 from the previous trading day according to data from February, 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.