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" were 135,747 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 128,043 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a bottom of 8,214 contracts on 17 September 2019; they reached their highest level of 202,837 on 30 June 2026; they were equal on average to 73,513.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 136583.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 128043.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 135747.0 |
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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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