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
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), long positions held by all reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 356,925 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 323,543 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the graph has 698 data points overall. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 422,678 contracts on 9 December 2025; they hit a minimum of 95,331 on 18 June 2019; they averaged 194,594.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 316280.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 323543.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 356925.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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