Options levels on thursday, February 29, 2023

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0891 (1786)

$1.0869 (3452)

$1.0855 (274)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0832

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0801 (978)

$1.0773 (2824)

$1.0736 (9391)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date March, 8 is 90824 contracts (according to data from February, 28) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0300 (11794);

GBP/USD

$1.2732 (2204)

$1.2705 (546)

$1.2685 (871)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2661

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2623 (140)

$1.2600 (205)

$1.2570 (1250)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 8 is 13005 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (2204);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 8 is 20586 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2400 (2749);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.58 versus 1.57 from the previous trading day according to data from February, 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.