Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  36

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/03/2004

(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
09/03/2004
Change From Previous Week
October 2004 306 -86 497 -306 2,421 -374
December 2004 7,927 727 11,988 3 41,899 -2,419
March 2005 9,963 333 398 214 14,214 732
May 2005 9,110 103 835 -21 3,346 -153
July 2005 16,536 431 122 -13 4,350 -158
October 2005 1,781 135 0 0 32 0
December 2005 3,605 82 4 0 1,760 -68
March 2006 265 61 0 0 120 41
May 2006 566 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 680 0 50 0 0 0
October 2006 54 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 0 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 50,806 1,786 13,894 -123 68,142 -2,399

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
9/9/2004