Options levels on monday, May 1, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1132 (2890)

$1.1081 (3885)

$1.1057 (1959)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0996

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0967 (818)

$1.0932 (6186)

$1.0891 (2391)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 98977 contracts (according to data from April, 28) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (17724);

GBP/USD

$1.2718 (911)

$1.2649 (668)

$1.2606 (634)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2549

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2505 (139)

$1.2473 (168)

$1.2435 (416)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 5 is 17199 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2150 (2248);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 19690 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2350 (1001);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.14 versus 1.15 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 28

* - 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.