COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 91,590 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 85,500 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 8,214 contracts on 17 September 2019; they recorded their maximum of 202,837 on 30 June 2026; they averaged 73,873.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 87132.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 85500.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 91590.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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