COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 65,995 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 60,117 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 691 observations overall. The series covers the span of time going from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 1,791 contracts on 18 March 2025; they peaked at 210,632 on 2 July 2024; they averaged 75,008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 61703.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 60117.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 65995.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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