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 306,543 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 291,655 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 691 observations. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 181,134 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 94,408 on 18 June 2019; they hit a peak of 423,289 on 9 December 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 284969.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 291655.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 306543.0 |
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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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