COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 49,989 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 43,481 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 20,809 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 101,979 on 23 September 2025; they hit a trough of 0 on 28 December 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 42106.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 43481.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 49989.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other reporting traders 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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