Options levels on friday, December 22, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1099 (1555)

$1.1076 (2151)

$1.1050 (1425)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1003

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0963 (8464)

$1.0929 (6284)

$1.0888 (3232)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 90167 contracts (according to data from December, 21) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1250 (6378);

GBP/USD

$1.2788 (511)

$1.2759 (735)

$1.2736 (704)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2695

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2653 (442)

$1.2633 (1984)

$1.2605 (189)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 5 is 8702 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 13850 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (1984);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.59 versus 1.54 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 21

* - 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.