COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in JPY/USD FX futures of the kind "JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,315 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 2,645 on 22 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 717 data points overall. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 5,665 contracts; they hit a minimum of 114 on 16 November 2021; they reached a maximum of 48,606 on 19 July 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 3325.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2645.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 3315.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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