Economic news
21.04.2022

Options levels on thursday, April 21, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0962 (930)

$1.0938 (245)

$1.0919 (72)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0849

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0777 (2577)

$1.0746 (2866)

$1.0710 (1188)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 6 is 58661 contracts (according to data from April, 20) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (3361);


GBP/USD

$1.3190 (2094)

$1.3159 (538)

$1.3133 (467)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3055

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2995 (2093)

$1.2971 (861)

$1.2941 (2303)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 6 is 18974 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3250 (2714);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date May, 6 is 23637 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (2433);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.25 versus 1.24 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 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.

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