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" stood at -64,945 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to -62,440 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 698 records in total. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of -116,983 contracts on 9 June 2015; they reached their highest level of 60,759 on 4 October 2016; they had a mean value of -34,445.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -52897.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -62440.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -64945.0 |
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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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