Options levels on tuesday, May 16, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0974 (2957)

$1.0934 (9259)

$1.0912 (702)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0871

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0844 (1450)

$1.0822 (7256)

$1.0794 (1471)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 159799 contracts (according to data from May, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (21223);

GBP/USD

$1.2667 (864)

$1.2617 (719)

$1.2583 (244)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2479

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2422 (661)

$1.2356 (1545)

$1.2276 (1038)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 16185 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2650 (2363);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 20694 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (3945);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.28 versus 1.28 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 15

* - 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.