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 108,437 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 86,860 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 698 records overall. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 140,196 contracts on 20 September 2022; they recorded a minimum of 6,294 on 22 January 2013; they had an average value of 50,958.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 79767.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 86860.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 108437.0 |
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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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