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 3,915 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 4,293 on 27 January.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the figure has 683 data points in total. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 4,740 contracts; they reached a maximum of 41,806 on 27 May 2025; they reached a minimum of 146 on 8 January 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 1930.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 4293.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 3915.0 |
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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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