Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  34

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/19/2005

(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
08/19/2005
Change From Previous Week
October 2005 2,721 -796 * 1,473 -202 4,816 -479
December 2005 11,136 -883 * 12,693 206 * 79,012 2,809
March 2006 11,214 -264 * 310 -23 15,299 1,525
May 2006 8,200 439 911 108 1,599 85
July 2006 11,351 189 5,189 83 1,903 45
October 2006 1,805 83 146 0 0 0
December 2006 3,550 -94 436 8 678 108
March 2007 188 0 0 0 3 3
May 2007 77 0 1,067 0 2 0
July 2007 225 0 1,081 44 1 0
December 2007 0 0 990 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 48 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 50,493 -1,326 * 24,344 224 * 103,313 4,096

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.

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
8/25/2005