Options levels on thursday, August 18, 2016:

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1416 (3620)

$1.1388 (4768)

$1.1348 (3352)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1316

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1256 (1001)

$1.1216 (2292)

$1.1155 (2381)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 9 is 53469 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1250 (5049);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 9 is 56913 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (5799);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.06 versus 1.07 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 17

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3304 (2954)

$1.3206 (2108)

$1.3110 (1257)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3063

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2990 (2181)

$1.2893 (2067)

$1.2796 (2605)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 9 is 32604 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3300 (2954);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 9 is 26346 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (2605);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.81 versus 0.81 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 17

* - 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.