Options levels on thursday, March 5, 2015:

EUR / USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1173 (908)

$1.1141 (1626)

$1.1100 (143)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1037

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1008 (5439)

$1.0975 (6282)

$1.0937 (1375)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 6 is 116818 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (6216);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 6 is 114279 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1100 (6282);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.98 versus 1.04 from the previous trading day according to data from March, 4

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.5500 (2817)

$1.5401 (2152)

$1.5303 (2212)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.5227

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.5198 (2304)

$1.5099 (1608)

$1.5000 (1917)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 6 is 30384 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,5500 (2817);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 6 is 35546 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,5200 (2304);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.17 versus 1.18 from the previous trading day according to data from March, 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.