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 269,338 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 265,164 on 27 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 683 data points. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 179,451 contracts; they hit a peak of 423,289 on 9 December 2025; they reached their minimum of 94,408 on 18 June 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 253249.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 265164.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 269338.0 |
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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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