Options levels on monday, August 8, 2022

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0375 (469)

$1.0323 (146)

$1.0256 (1676)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0185

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0083 (1759)

$1.0021 (9025)

$0.9949 (5041)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 9 is 119522 contracts (according to data from August, 5) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1400 (14019);

GBP/USD

$1.2285 (550)

$1.2230 (536)

$1.2187 (158)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2074

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1989 (1873)

$1.1943 (573)

$1.1886 (553)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 9 is 16301 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2850 (2264);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 9 is 21852 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2500 (1991);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.34 versus 1.90 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 5

* - 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.