COT reports: Net long positions held by dealers 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 dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -86,702 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -108,284 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the plot has 717 records. The period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 35,784 contracts; they recorded a minimum of -266,914 on 29 April 2025; they recorded their maximum of 204,466 on 2 July 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -168570.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -108284.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -86702.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by dealers 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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