Options levels on tuesday, August 6, 2019

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1280 (1986)

$1.1258 (1920)

$1.1242 (710)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1206

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1181 (2450)

$1.1142 (3090)

$1.1097 (5063)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 76697 contracts (according to data from August, 5) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1100 (5063);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2354 (228)

$1.2308 (255)

$1.2266 (435)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2163

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2080 (560)

$1.2040 (290)

$1.1995 (354)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 9 is 17000 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2051);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 9 is 20314 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2450 (2362);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.19 versus 1.23 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.