COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -30,936 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to -8,008 on 27 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 683 records in total. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 35,993 contracts; they registered a minimum of -266,914 on 29 April 2025; they hit a maximum of 204,466 on 2 July 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 17127.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | -8008.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | -30936.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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