Options levels on friday, December 29, 2017

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2045 (4716)

$1.2026 (3479)

$1.2010 (4178)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1951

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1892 (4572)

$1.1847 (4620)

$1.1799 (4662)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 95633 contracts (according to data from December, 28) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (5590);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3566 (3040)

$1.3533 (4878)

$1.3494 (2478)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3466

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3420 (1972)

$1.3385 (2404)

$1.3343 (2084)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 5 is 33515 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3500 (4878);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 5 is 34147 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3250 (2803);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.02 versus 1.03 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 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.