Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  19

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/02/2008

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
05/02/2008 		Change From Previous Week
May 2008 26   -45 * 1   1   1,602   -925  
July 2008 14,566   -3,166 * 1,769   17   125,362   -3,421  
October 2008 4,368   0   124   0   2,673   -28  
December 2008 18,784   897   8,032   -145   100,704   3,642  
March 2009 6,721   982   134   0   9,239   724  
May 2009 3,230   244   288   128   1,444   603  
July 2009 6,908   0   342   0   1,647   114  
October 2009 412   0   377   0   74   3  
December 2009 5,296   0   257   30   3,479   117  
March 2010 1,167   0   0   0   50   0  
May 2010 111   0   10   0   0   0  
July 2010 148   0   132   0   1,331   0  
October 2010 0   0   0   0   7   0  
December 2010 148   0   0   0   106   0  
March 2011 29   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 61,914   -1,088 * 11,466   31   247,718   829  

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

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.

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at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, May 8, 2008.
05/08/2008