Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  15

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/07/2006

(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
04/07/2006 		Change From Previous Week
May 2006 3,872   -1,339   1,669   -309   64,868   -15,169  
July 2006 15,460   394   9,458   213   48,817   14,298  
October 2006 4,867   140   1,367   74   1,661   217  
December 2006 10,052   406   9,368   162   21,370   3,454  
March 2007 3,662   86   55   -4   2,221   53  
May 2007 1,721   0   290   -4   113   7  
July 2007 5,338   0   4,285   0   1,412   38  
October 2007 101   0   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,465   0   0   0   482   53  
March 2008 261   0   0   0   1   1  
May 2008 0   0   248   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 46,812   -313   26,740   132   140,961   2,952  

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
04/13/2006