Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report 35

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/29/2003

(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
08/29/2003
Change From Previous Week
October 2003 1,050 -25 668 -33 3,195 -36
December 2003 7,572 -45 7,236 -88 45,514 679
March 2004 10,946 172 1,237 -12 10,016 -88
May 2004 6,885 119 1,605 -59 2,978 28
July 2004 10,826 103 79 12 2,344 -25
October 2004 2,195 91 25 4 110 0
December 2004 2,502 126 23 0 630 1
March 2005 581 15 0 0 17 0
May 2005 539 0 0 0 25 0
July 2005 865 0 0 0 0 0
December 2005 681 0 0 0 0 0
March 2006 62 0 0 0 0 0
May 2006 113 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 120 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 44,937 556 10,873 -176 64,829 559

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 Vincent G. Varisano
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.


Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
9/4/2003