Options levels on thursday, April 20, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1072 (3848)

$1.1032 (1979)

$1.1008 (444)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0969

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0940 (156)

$1.0918 (828)

$1.0891 (5008)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 90698 contracts (according to data from April, 19) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (17734);

GBP/USD

$1.2562 (600)

$1.2514 (190)

$1.2483 (78)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2443

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2410 (122)

$1.2392 (167)

$1.2368 (375)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 5 is 15462 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 13768 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2350 (983);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.89 versus 0.88 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 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.