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 -168,570 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to -39,477 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 715 records. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of -266,914 contracts on 29 April 2025; they recorded their maximum of 204,466 on 2 July 2024; they were equal on average to 36,157.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 79,321.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | -39,477.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | -168,570 |
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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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