COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 395,408 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 460,240 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 715 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 94,408 contracts on 18 June 2019; they reached a maximum of 462,035 on 9 June 2026; they were equal on average to 187,466.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 373,325 |
| 2026-09-08 | 460,240 |
| 2026-09-15 | 395,408 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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