Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  21

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/16/2008

(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
05/16/2008 		Change From Previous Week
May 2008 0   0   0   0   0   -305  
July 2008 13,948   11   1,906   -11   126,952   1,615  
October 2008 4,596   248   124   0   3,139   186  
December 2008 19,837   805   7,653   58   109,233   5,879  
March 2009 7,090   167   180   49   11,692   1,020  
May 2009 3,267   4   288   0   1,466   67  
July 2009 7,196   268   342   0   1,807   119  
October 2009 585   0   377   0   99   25  
December 2009 5,777   481   534   263   3,794   125  
March 2010 1,299   132   0   0   50   0  
May 2010 155   44   10   0   9   3  
July 2010 148   0   132   0   1,331   -1  
October 2010 0   0   0   0   7   0  
December 2010 148   0   0   0   108   0  
March 2011 42   13   0   0   12   6  
Totals 64,088   2,173   11,546   359   259,699   8,739  

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, May 22, 2008.
05/22/2008
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