Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  4

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 01/20/2006

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
New York Board of Trade

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
01/20/2006
Change From Previous Week
March 2006 12,648 -1,117 2,706 -913 86,011 1,507
May 2006 10,871 465 1,296 -129 24,059 2,422
July 2006 14,648 11 7,550 84 5,842 409
October 2006 3,099 79 274 0 121 16
December 2006 5,673 -211 2,104 261 4,681 428
March 2007 781 39 48 0 654 296
May 2007 375 0 290 0 32 0
July 2007 1,306 278 4,209 -22 400 207
October 2007 21 0 0 0 10 10
December 2007 24 10 0 0 6 4
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 248 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 49,472 -446 18,725 -719 121,816 5,299

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.


This report is published by the Commission's Division of Market Oversight.
If you have any questions concerning this report, call Walter Spilka, Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9777.

Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
1/26/2006