COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 387,294 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 462,035 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 702 data points. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 183,951 contracts; they reached their minimum of 94,408 on 18 June 2019; they hit a maximum of 462,035 on 9 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 461472.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 462035.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 387294.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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