Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  18

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/28/2006

(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
04/28/2006 		Change From Previous Week
May 2006 322   286   249   188   87   -1,464  
July 2006 9,404   -4,372   10,779   250   103,975   6,273  
October 2006 4,862   -89   413   -200   1,777   57  
December 2006 10,050   -429   10,463   54   35,445   3,083  
March 2007 4,184   231   55   0   3,837   1,348  
May 2007 1,872   0   290   0   199   71  
July 2007 5,660   74   4,982   127   1,719   250  
October 2007 109   0   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,499   26   0   0   818   10  
March 2008 374   55   0   0   13   10  
May 2008 0   0   248   0   0   0  
July 2008 79   0   0   0   0   0  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 38,468   -4,218   27,479   419   147,886   9,638  

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
05/04/2006