Options levels on wednesday, December 14, 2016:

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0835 (1451)

$1.0799 (290)

$1.0746 (200)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0651

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0574 (2107)

$1.0537 (1171)

$1.0490 (1147)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 13 is 41427 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (3247);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 13 is 42036 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0000 (3520);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.01 versus 1.03 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 13

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2914 (274)

$1.2818 (463)

$1.2723 (416)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2660

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2580 (720)

$1.2484 (477)

$1.2387 (325)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 13 is 9777 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2600 (1105);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 13 is 12577 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (2966);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.29 versus 1.23 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 13

* - 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.