Options levels on monday, April 17, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1157 (3399)

$1.1106 (3842)

$1.1072 (1991)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0987

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0931 (831)

$1.0900 (4997)

$1.0865 (2066)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 86308 contracts (according to data from April, 14) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (17725);

GBP/USD

$1.2535 (512)

$1.2492 (268)

$1.2464 (1307)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2416

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2348 (369)

$1.2321 (382)

$1.2291 (977)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 5 is 14956 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2150 (2239);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 13092 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2350 (977);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.88 versus 0.98 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 14

* - 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.