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 58,686 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 42,179 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 35,403 contracts; they reached their lowest level 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 21842.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 42179.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 58686.0 |
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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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