• Options levels on thursday, December 18, 2014:

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18 December 2014

Options levels on thursday, December 18, 2014:

EUR / USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2452 (1773)

$1.2410 (346)

$1.2381 (245)

Price at time of writing this review: $ 1.2337

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2306 (810)

$1.2278 (2109)

$1.2235 (3684)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 9 is 51390 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2500 (6745);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 9 is 58168 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (7336);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.13 versus 1.16 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 17

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.5802 (1955)

$1.5704 (2729)

$1.5608 (711)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.5585

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.5491 (1074)

$1.5394 (938)

$1.5297 (1172)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 9 is 23056 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,5850 (4100);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 9 is 18196 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,5550 (1898);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.79 versus 0.79 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 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.

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