• Options levels on friday, January 22, 2016:

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22 January 2016

Options levels on friday, January 22, 2016:

EUR / USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0987 (3142)

$1.0944 (1820)

$1.0902 (298)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0817

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0777 (3879)

$1.0747 (7664)

$1.0712 (4474)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 5 is 39531 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (4611);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 5 is 60648 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0700 (7811);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.53 versus 1.51 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 21


GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.4503 (1192)

$1.4405 (628)

$1.4308 (364)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.4232

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.4189 (938)

$1.4093 (772)

$1.3997 (526)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 5 is 22927 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,4700 (3151);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 5 is 22110 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,4550 (2012);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.96 versus 0.95 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 21


* - 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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