• Options levels on wednesday, August 20, 2014:

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20 August 2014

Options levels on wednesday, August 20, 2014:

EUR / USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3372 (758)

$1.3341 (53)

$1.3323 (27)

Price at time of writing this review: $ 1.3306

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3293 (5069)

$1.3274 (4689)

$1.3249 (4725)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 5 is 55021 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3400 (6230);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 5 is 61068 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (6361);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.11 versus 1.10 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 19

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.6901 (2418)

$1.6801 (1821)

$1.6703 (518)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.6605

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.6497 (1805)

$1.6399 (734)

$1.6300 (643)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 5 is 27685 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,7000 (2771);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 5 is 29220 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,6800 (4032);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.06 versus 1.07 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 19

* - 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.

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