Options levels on wednesday, December 22, 2021

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1385 (1445)

$1.1356 (1609)

$1.1335 (219)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1269

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1247 (1526)

$1.1218 (2925)

$1.1182 (3180)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 63309 contracts (according to data from December, 21) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (9170);

GBP/USD

$1.3381 (825)

$1.3350 (289)

$1.3325 (398)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3250

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3212 (838)

$1.3187 (731)

$1.3156 (1375)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 7 is 14232 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 19636 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2680);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.38 versus 1.37 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.