Options levels on friday, March 17, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0780 (1078)

$1.0736 (508)

$1.0708 (332)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0669

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0592 (6643)

$1.0536 (3564)

$1.0464 (2229)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date April, 6 is 84656 contracts (according to data from March, 16) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0400 (20753);

GBP/USD

$1.2296 (1368)

$1.2248 (2134)

$1.2213 (677)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2161

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2052 (480)

$1.2000 (275)

$1.1935 (1288)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date April, 6 is 15157 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2100 (2134);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date April, 6 is 20241 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3400 (2150);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.33 versus 1.33 from the previous trading day according to data from March, 16

* - 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.