Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  10

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 03/04/2005

(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
03/04/2005 		Change From Previous Week
March 2005 0 0 304 -33 346 -211
May 2005 7,536 115 1,597 -97 79,897 6,760
July 2005 13,663 -98 2,118 451 19,064 1,896
October 2005 4,654 4 541 380 1,463 145
December 2005 6,111 506 3,220 606 8,881 379
March 2006 1,480 500 2,216 2,128 1,576 73
May 2006 1,508 175 0 0 581 -61
July 2006 1,739 428 1,261 169 311 93
October 2006 287 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 607 381 0 0 131 1
March 2007 26 -82 0 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 37,624 1,929 11,257 3,604 112,250 9,075

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
3/10/2005