Options levels on friday, May 19, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0925 (2972)

$1.0860 (9349)

$1.0820 (702)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0784

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0746 (1487)

$1.0725 (4127)

$1.0697 (1447)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 160459 contracts (according to data from May, 18) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (21252);

GBP/USD

$1.2549 (923)

$1.2493 (244)

$1.2456 (94)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2411

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2362 (708)

$1.2318 (1549)

$1.2255 (2725)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 16921 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2650 (2360);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 23050 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (3947);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.36 versus 1.38 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 18

* - 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.