COT reports: Short positions held by asset 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), short positions held by asset managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 153,796 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 151,787 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 702 observations in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 153,796 contracts on 16 June 2026; they reached a trough of 6,294 on 22 January 2013; they had a mean value of 51,478.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 135430.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 151787.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 153796.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset 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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