Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  5

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 01/27/2006

(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
01/27/2006
Change From Previous Week
March 2006 12,717 69 2,508 -198 85,220 -791
May 2006 11,855 984 1,532 236 27,601 3,542
July 2006 15,697 1,049 7,445 -105 6,854 1,012
October 2006 3,387 288 274 0 162 41
December 2006 6,038 365 3,526 1,422 5,904 1,223
March 2007 859 78 48 0 1,229 575
May 2007 406 31 290 0 32 0
July 2007 1,210 -96 4,286 77 705 305
October 2007 21 0 0 0 10 0
December 2007 44 20 0 0 7 1
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 52,260 2,788 20,157 1,432 127,724 5,908

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
2/2/2006