Options levels on wednesday, August 12, 2020

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1867 (2394)

$1.1839 (1169

$1.1816 (1023)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1722

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1687 (584)

$1.1665 (503)

$1.1638 (946)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 4 is 87175 contracts (according to data from August, 11) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (5007);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3166 (827)

$1.3127 (726)

$1.3101 (888)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3035

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2974 (493)

$1.2921 (1365)

$1.2853 (1237)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 4 is 22078 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3800 (3396);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 4 is 16032 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (1365);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.73 versus 0.72 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 11

* - 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.