- The Record
- desk-dollarfx-004
Positioning is crowded (record-short yen) — an unwind is the main two-way risk
- Status
- Confirmed
- Date made
- July 26, 2026
- Resolution window
- Weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders; next scheduled BoJ policy meeting
- Resolved
- July 31, 2026
- Graded
- October 3, 2026
- Outcome
- CONFIRMED (upgraded from partial on Aug 5). USD/JPY crossed the flagged ~162 intervention-risk zone to ~164, then fell ~3.3% on Jul 30 — the largest single-day drop in over two years — to 157.40 by the Jul 31 NY close. Scoring history, preserved: scored PARTIAL on Aug 5 pre-confirmation (hit in price, mechanism unverified — the honest read at the time). Upgraded the same day when Japan's MOF officially confirmed: Finance Minister Katayama's Aug 3 statement confirms the Jul 31 joint yen purchase in coordination with the US Treasury; Bessent independently confirmed US participation. First coordinated US–Japan yen-buying intervention since Jun 17, 1998. The Aug-28 MOF window release is no longer the gating item.
- Desk
- FX / Dollar · Intel Suite Desk
- Source
- Desk — The Dollar Runs on the Fed, Not Faith.
- Call ID
- desk-dollarfx-004
Regrade log
- 2026-10-03 open → confirmed. Sealed OPEN in the genesis anchor (Aug 28 2026); graded Oct 3 2026. resolved_date is the call's scheduled checkpoint; outcome evidence dated after the checkpoint is post-window context.
Provenance
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