COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 112,851 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 123,850 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 8,214 contracts on 17 September 2019; they hit a peak of 154,058 on 14 November 2017; they had an average value of 70,409.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 137696.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 123850.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 112851.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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