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 77,232 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 67,921 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 691 records. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 36,841 contracts; they reached a trough of 8,648 on 15 February 2022; they recorded their maximum of 90,282 on 4 October 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 69103.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 67921.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 77232.0 |
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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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