Options levels on friday, August 30, 2019

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1203 (2158)

$1.1156 (2073)

$1.1116 (1561)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1046

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1026 (3669)

$1.1009 (1531)

$1.0989 (7018)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 111197 contracts (according to data from August, 29) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1400 (8819);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2330 (2301)

$1.2265 (1420)

$1.2224 (843)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2183

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2141 (1537)

$1.2120 (1169)

$1.2094 (699)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 6 is 31014 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2750 (4128);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 6 is 26756 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2100 (2129);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.86 versus 0.87 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 29

* - 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.