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 36,119 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 47,598 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 685 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 6,294 contracts on 22 January 2013; they attained a maximum of 140,196 on 20 September 2022; they were equal on average to 50,537.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 40658.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 47598.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 36119.0 |
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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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