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 -41,886 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus -19,992 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 698 records overall. The period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a bottom of -100,036 contracts on 2 July 2024; they reached their maximum of 127,275 on 29 April 2025; they had a mean value of -3,999.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -10596.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -19992.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -41886.0 |
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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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