Options levels on thursday, December 23, 2021

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1433 (4115)

$1.1404 (2468)

$1.1384 (1611)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1332

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1300 (399)

$1.1270 (1517)

$1.1234 (2958)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 64198 contracts (according to data from December, 22) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (9156);

GBP/USD

$1.3476 (785)

$1.3444 (546)

$1.3418 (826)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3364

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3313 (1038)

$1.3258 (854)

$1.3183 (1369)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 7 is 13842 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 19780 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2681);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.43 versus 1.38 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 22

* - 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.