COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 42,935 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 42,886 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 39,634 contracts; they reached a minimum of 537 on 11 October 2022; they peaked at 277,678 on 6 May 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 46946.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 42886.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 42935.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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