• Options levels on thursday, May 4, 2017

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4 May 2017

Options levels on thursday, May 4, 2017

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1024 (3471)

$1.0988 (3998)

$1.0965 (4166)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0886

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0852 (1429)

$1.0804 (1593)

$1.0774 (1529)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 76554 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (8365);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 81380 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0700 (6234);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.06 versus 1.02 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 3

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3105 (2145)

$1.3009 (2930)

$1.2913 (1426)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2845

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2791 (1390)

$1.2694 (869)

$1.2596 (1501)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 26693 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2930);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 30013 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2500 (5027);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.12 versus 1.15 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 3

* - 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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