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 4,983 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 4,187 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 48,606 contracts on 19 July 2016; they recorded a bottom of 114 on 16 November 2021; they had a mean value of 5,745.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 2543.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 4187.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 4983.0 |
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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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