Options levels on thursday, January 18, 2017

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2340 (4044)

$1.2310 (5514)

$1.2287 (3098)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2188

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2144 (1506)

$1.2111 (1757)

$1.2073 (2246)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 9 is 106667 contracts (according to data from January, 17) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2100 (5514);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3944 (3177)

$1.3928 (3482)

$1.3909 (897)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3817

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3735 (228)

$1.3700 (508)

$1.3663 (208)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 9 is 33837 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3600 (3482);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 9 is 28546 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3500 (3055);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.84 versus 0.86 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 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.