Options levels on thursday, December 21, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1044 (2111)

$1.1021 (1607)

$1.0996 (1051)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0949

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0915 (6264)

$1.0880 (3115)

$1.0840 (961)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 89085 contracts (according to data from December, 20) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1250 (6340);

GBP/USD

$1.2741 (733)

$1.2712 (705)

$1.2690 (1906)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2642

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2608 (1984)

$1.2586 (189)

$1.2558 (61)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 5 is 8697 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2600 (1906);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 13430 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1984);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.54 versus 1.49 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 20

* - 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.