Options levels on wednesday, April 19, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1083 (3846)

$1.1046 (1980)

$1.1026 (444)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0958

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0927 (825)

$1.0898 (5004)

$1.0864 (2067)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 87202 contracts (according to data from April, 18) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (17725);

GBP/USD

$1.2561 (600)

$1.2511 (190)

$1.2479 (78)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2456

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2403 (122)

$1.2362 (369)

$1.2302 (978)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 5 is 15283 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 13519 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2350 (978);

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