COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at -54,452 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to -71,766 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are a total of 683 records. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of -116,983 contracts on 9 June 2015; they hit a maximum of 60,759 on 4 October 2016; they were equal on average to -34,045.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | -84737.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | -71766.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | -54452.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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