Options levels on thursday, January 20, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1439 (1833)

$1.1413 (1625)

$1.1394 (672)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1351

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1325 (458)

$1.1301 (2065)

$1.1270 (4841)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 4 is 45852 contracts (according to data from January, 19) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1300 (4841);

GBP/USD

$1.3737 (1144)

$1.3707 (460)

$1.3683 (1109)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3626

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3565 (694)

$1.3519 (595)

$1.3472 (957)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 4 is 12678 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 15590 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3450 (1539);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.23 versus 1.22 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 19

* - 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.