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" stood at 36,190 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 42,179 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 691 records in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 101,979 contracts on 23 September 2025; they reached a trough of 0 on 28 December 2021; they had an average value of 20,594.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 42060.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 42179.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 36190.0 |
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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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