Options levels on friday, December 31, 2021

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1417 (4229)

$1.1386 (2425)

$1.1365 (1479)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1315

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1280 (2252)

$1.1241 (2795)

$1.1196 (3206)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 67408 contracts (according to data from December, 30) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (9159);

GBP/USD

$1.3610 (1449)

$1.3573 (484)

$1.3545 (1210)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3503

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3428 (345)

$1.3389 (1063)

$1.3344 (165)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 7 is 14223 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 19442 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2672);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.37 versus 1.36 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 30

* - 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.