Options levels on wednesday, January 19, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1434 (1843)

$1.1405 (1617)

$1.1382 (672)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1335

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1284 (2066)

$1.1257 (4471)

$1.1223 (1689)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 4 is 45421 contracts (according to data from January, 18) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1300 (4471);

GBP/USD

$1.3699 (460)

$1.3671 (1116)

$1.3650 (1165)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3608

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3544 (693)

$1.3503 (595)

$1.3460 (956)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 4 is 12637 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,4550 (2246);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 4 is 15355 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3450 (1539);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.22 versus 1.20 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 18

* - 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.