COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 34,335 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 35,562 on 27 January.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the chart, there are 683 observations. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 38,281 contracts; they reached a maximum of 121,755 on 16 December 2025; they reached their minimum of 13,847 on 5 January 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 39358.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 35562.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 34335.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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