COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: JPY/USD exchange rate COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 10,614 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 18,500 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the plot, there are 715 records. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 41,806 contracts on 27 May 2025; they reached their lowest level of 146 on 8 January 2013; they averaged 4,975.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 20,163.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 18,500.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 10,614.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in futures on the JPY/USD exchange rate |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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