Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  19

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/07/2004

(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
05/07/2004
Change From Previous Week
May 2004 0 -19 0 -66 71 -976
July 2004 4,327 -413 1,612 -39 49,049 -1,630
October 2004 1,357 100 1,352 41 1,452 -181
December 2004 5,923 497 8,200 1,314 25,233 598
March 2005 5,967 743 166 0 4,854 38
May 2005 4,182 295 170 0 836 0
July 2005 7,356 718 81 31 757 0
October 2005 449 42 0 0 2 0
December 2005 1,493 275 0 0 449 0
March 2006 121 0 0 0 76 0
May 2006 112 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 119 0 50 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 31,419 2,238 11,631 1,281 82,779 -2,151

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 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
5/13/2004