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
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 asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 63,211 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 58,266 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 691 records overall. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Check out some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 46,779 contracts; they reached a trough of 17,796 on 1 April 2014; they attained a maximum of 137,808 on 29 April 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 67607.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 58266.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 63211.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by asset 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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