COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 4,848 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 4,843 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 0 contracts on 29 October 2013; they recorded a maximum of 20,954 on 9 December 2014; they averaged 773.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 6012.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 4843.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 4848.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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