Options levels on friday, August 5, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0353 (1348)

$1.0313 (941)

$1.0283 (1330)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0226

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0197 (1259)

$1.0149 (1046)

$1.0100 (1828)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 5 is 74877 contracts (according to data from August, 4) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0000 (3888);

GBP/USD

$1.2256 (1283)

$1.2221 (205)

$1.2190 (552)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2152

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2095 (218)

$1.2049 (353)

$1.2000 (531)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 5 is 12834 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2150 (1371);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 5 is 24383 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3500 (1748);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.90 versus 1.88 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 4

* - 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.