Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report 23

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 06/04/2004

(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
06/04/2004
Change From Previous Week
July 2004 2,581 -890 1,396 -230 41,317 -873
October 2004 1,437 -320 1,304 43 1,885 413
December 2004 7,256 728 8,819 238 33,345 3,909
March 2005 8,545 1,036 157 0 6,305 545
May 2005 6,198 1,049 203 82 1,303 188
July 2005 10,871 1,436 114 31 774 -8
October 2005 620 0 0 0 3 1
December 2005 1,512 3 0 0 510 58
March 2006 138 13 0 0 79 3
May 2006 153 50 0 0 0 0
July 2006 153 0 50 0 0 0
December 2006 61 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 74 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 39,599 3,105 12,043 164 85,521 4,236

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
6/10/2004