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" were 141,230 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 164,977 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly time series has 717 observations overall. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 277,678 contracts on 6 May 2025; they registered a minimum of 537 on 11 October 2022; they had a mean value of 40,231.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 217166.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 164977.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 141230.0 |
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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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