COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 47,953 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 44,053 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 records in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 14,420 contracts; they recorded a bottom of -47,513 on 19 July 2016; they reached their highest level of 100,652 on 23 September 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 46191.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 44053.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 47953.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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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