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Options levels on tuesday, October 5, 2021
EUR/USD
Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)
$1.1708 (2212)
$1.1674 (715)
$1.1653 (644)
Price at time of writing this review: $1.1593
Support levels (open interest**, contracts):
$1.1545 (2014)
$1.1498 (6189)
$1.1449 (377)
Comments:
- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date October, 8 is 81113 contracts (according to data from October, 4) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2200 (8606);
GBP/USD
$1.3759 (212)
$1.3719 (411)
$1.3685 (199)
Price at time of writing this review: $1.3589
Support levels (open interest**, contracts):
$1.3523 (632)
$1.3485 (1319)
$1.3441 (1259)
Comments:
- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date October, 8 is 13614 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,4150 (2064);
- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date October, 8 is 19934 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3250 (1885);
- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.46 versus 1.64 from the previous trading day according to data from October, 4
* - 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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Pacific | Wellington | 19:00 | 04:00 | 22:00 | 07:00 | 22:00 | 07:00 |
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Pacific | Sydney | 21:00 | 06:00 | 00:00 | 09:00 | 00:00 | 09:00 |
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Asian | Tokyo | 23:00 | 08:00 | 02:00 | 11:00 | 02:00 | 11:00 |
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Asian | Hong Kong, Singapore | 00:00 | 09:00 | 03:00 | 12:00 | 03:00 | 12:00 |
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European | 06:00 | 15:00 | 09:00 | 18:00 | 9:00 | 18:00 | |
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European | London | 07:00 | 16:00 | 10:00 | 19:00 | 10:00 | 19:00 |
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American | New York | 12:00 | 21:00 | 15:00 | 00:00 | 15:00 | 00:00 |
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American | Chicago | 13:00 | 22:00 | 16:00 | 01:00 | 16:00 | 01:00 |