COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 58,399 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 52,084 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 records in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 90,282 contracts on 4 October 2016; they hit a trough of 8,648 on 15 February 2022; they had a mean value of 36,364.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 52959.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 52084.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 58399.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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