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" stood at 87,240 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 85,900 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 715 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 100,652 contracts on 23 September 2025; they reached their minimum of -47,513 on 19 July 2016; they had a mean of 16,067.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 52,722.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 85,900.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 87,240.0 |
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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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