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
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 leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 67,776 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 74,973 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 93,889 contracts on 16 June 2026; they registered a minimum of 8,648 on 15 February 2022; they averaged 38,111.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 75758.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 74973.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 67776.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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