COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 13,813 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 11,234 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 691 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 0 contracts on 27 July 2021; they achieved a maximum of 86,884 on 11 March 2025; they had a mean of 2,456.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 5908.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 11234.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 13813.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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