COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,615 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 2,036 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 48,606 contracts on 19 July 2016; they reached their minimum of 114 on 16 November 2021; they had a mean of 5,796.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 2081.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 2036.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 1615.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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