COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 133,531 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 43,040 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 702 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 133,531 contracts on 16 June 2026; they reached their minimum of 13,847 on 5 January 2021; they had a mean of 38,434.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 44083.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 43040.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 133531.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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