• Options levels on friday, August 21, 2020

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21 August 2020

Options levels on friday, August 21, 2020

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1957 (2734)

$1.1929 (2330)

$1.1907 (2354)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1872

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1801 (344)

$1.1779 (1292)

$1.1751 (807)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 4 is 92676 contracts (according to data from August, 20) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0500 (5007);


GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3353 (1432)

$1.3322 (1502)

$1.3296 (1107)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3238

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3057 (547)

$1.3020 (530)

$1.2980 (1656)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 4 is 22594 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3800 (3394);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 4 is 18529  contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (1656);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.82 versus 0.80 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 20

 

* - 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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