COT reports: Net long positions held by asset 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), net long positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 51,634 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 41,629 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of -4,855 contracts; they attained a maximum of 127,275 on 29 April 2025; they reached their lowest level of -100,036 on 2 July 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 53845.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 41629.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 51634.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by asset 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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