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Options levels on thursday, January 14, 2021

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2266 (843)

$1.2241 (188)

$1.2221 (591)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2138

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2104 (2314)

$1.2080 (1140)

$1.2050 (1105)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 5 is 46325 contracts (according to data from January, 13) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (3406);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3818 (1363)

$1.3787 (1036)

$1.3736 (1127)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3639

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3499 (776)

$1.3436 (1687)

$1.3360 (1379)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 5 is 10406 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,4000 (1714);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 5 is 19162 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2500 (2185);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.84 versus 1.83 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 13

* - 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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