COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 71,572 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 52,506 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 683 observations. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 39,252 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 277,678 on 6 May 2025; they hit a minimum of 537 on 11 October 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 21339.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 52506.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 71572.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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