Options levels on thursday, May 4, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1140 (2463)

$1.1117 (1452)

$1.1104 (3689)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1085

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1051 (353)

$1.1023 (2121)

$1.0987 (1099)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date May, 5 is 95275 contracts (according to data from May, 3) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (17645);

GBP/USD

$1.2633 (666)

$1.2608 (721)

$1.2593 (386)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2571

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2520 (138)

$1.2485 (164)

$1.2444 (432)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date May, 5 is 15817 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 19920 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2350 (999);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.26 versus 1.19 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 3

* - 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.