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" were 81,097 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 75,029 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 8,648 contracts on 15 February 2022; they attained a maximum of 90,282 on 4 October 2016; they had a mean value of 37,272.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 86085.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 75029.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 81097.0 |
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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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