COT reports: Long positions held by dealers 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 dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 40,636 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 44,498 on 27 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 683 observations in total. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 75,245 contracts; they reached a maximum of 210,632 on 2 July 2024; they registered a minimum of 1,791 on 18 March 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 38466.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 44498.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 40636.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers 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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