Options levels on thursday, December 16, 2021

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1396 (1352)

$1.1367 (1626)

$1.1345 (220)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1300

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1231 (1072)

$1.1203 (2060)

$1.1169 (3259)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 61037 contracts (according to data from December, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (9139);

GBP/USD

$1.3428 (426)

$1.3359 (285)

$1.3311 (145)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3263

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3214 (1038)

$1.3183 (745)

$1.3131 (1158)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 7 is 13318 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,4400 (2041);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 17546 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2688);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.32 versus 1.30 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 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.