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 1,899 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 3,263 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 691 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 48,606 contracts on 19 July 2016; they recorded a bottom of 114 on 16 November 2021; they averaged 5,776.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 4069.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 3263.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1899.0 |
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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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