Options levels on thursday, January 18, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0971 (481)

$1.0949 (495)

$1.0933 (342)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0899

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0852 (3007)

$1.0830 (1735)

$1.0802 (2327)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 9 is 49816 contracts (according to data from January, 17) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0800 (5798);

GBP/USD

$1.2781 (1526)

$1.2737 (256)

$1.2710 (1289)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2689

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2640 (100)

$1.2602 (510)

$1.2545 (475)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 9 is 13574 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2350 (2453);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 9 is 11299 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2650 (1625);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.83 versus 0.81 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 17

* - 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.