COT reports: Long positions held by asset 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), long positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 118,873 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 77,576 on 8 September.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the plot has 715 observations. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 47,626 contracts; they hit a peak of 137,808 on 29 April 2025; they recorded a bottom of 17,796 on 1 April 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 70,419.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 77,576.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 118,873 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by asset 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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