COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 34,291 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 38,916 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 691 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their highest level of 100,652 contracts on 23 September 2025; they registered a minimum of -47,513 on 19 July 2016; they had an average value of 14,819.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 37991.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 38916.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 34291.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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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