Options levels on thursday, July 12, 2018

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1852 (2238)

$1.1799 (2603)

$1.1756 (155)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1679

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1631 (3122)

$1.1599 (3006)

$1.1563 (4467)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 13 is 83043 contracts (according to data from July, 11) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1850 (5027);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3335 (661)

$1.3302 (669)

$1.3280 (287)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3208

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3166 (1546)

$1.3142 (1441)

$1.3113 (2061)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 13 is 22051 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3600 (3174);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 13 is 25474 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (2522);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.16 versus 1.16 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 11.

* - 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.