Options levels on thursday, August 4, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0304 (1022)

$1.0228 (1103)

$1.0195 (68)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0161

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0091 (1844)

$1.0046 (647)

$0.9998 (3808)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 5 is 72844 contracts (according to data from August, 3) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0000 (3808);

GBP/USD

$1.2308 (561)

$1.2232 (189)

$1.2188 (690)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2137

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2068 (151)

$1.2031 (369)

$1.1989 (482)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 5 is 12945 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2150 (1356);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 5 is 24305 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3500 (1748);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.88 versus 1.90 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 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.