COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 4,401 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 4,373 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 146 contracts on 8 January 2013; they hit a peak of 41,806 on 27 May 2025; they had a mean of 4,923.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 7533.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 4373.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 4401.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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