COT reports: Net long positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -67,971 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus -53,070 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 60,759 contracts on 4 October 2016; they reached their minimum of -116,983 on 9 June 2015; they were equal on average to -35,402.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -60825.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -53070.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -67971.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by leveraged money 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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