Options levels on friday, January 21, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1423 (1834)

$1.1391 (1619)

$1.1366 (673)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1332

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1301 (459)

$1.1284 (2082)

$1.1259 (4928)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 4 is 46043 contracts (according to data from January, 20) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1300 (4928);

GBP/USD

$1.3697 (461)

$1.3671 (1109)

$1.3652 (1166)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3590

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3518 (595)

$1.3471 (1549)

$1.3432 (1468)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 4 is 12688 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 16163 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3450 (1549);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.27 versus 1.23 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 20

* - 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.