Options levels on friday, May 12, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1060 (21167)

$1.1009 (2937)

$1.0976 (9871)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0929

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0913 (555)

$1.0882 (591)

$1.0833 (1948)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 157696 contracts (according to data from May, 11) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (21324);

GBP/USD

$1.2668 (866)

$1.2615 (717)

$1.2577 (244)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2528

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2454 (708)

$1.2407 (654)

$1.2344 (1470)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 15593 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2650 (2362);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 19908 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (3944);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.28 versus 1.29 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 11

* - 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.