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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

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" were 11,769 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 7,048 on 12 May.

Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the figure, there are 698 observations. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to May 2026.

History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 4,874 contracts; they reached a maximum of 41,806 on 27 May 2025; they reached a trough of 146 on 8 January 2013.

Latest values

Date Value - Number of contracts
2026-05-05 4665.0
2026-05-12 7048.0
2026-05-19 11769.0

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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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JPY_USD

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by dealers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by dealers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures: JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19