Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  37

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/09/2005

(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
09/09/2005 		Change From Previous Week
October 2005 1,459 -418 878 -463 3,404 -829
December 2005 11,218 -39 10,806 -784 77,018 -3,878
March 2006 11,650 190 379 -27 20,175 1,821
May 2006 8,488 -69 936 0 2,003 234
July 2006 11,565 -103 6,024 55 * 2,050 98
October 2006 1,935 -23 239 0 1 1
December 2006 3,740 51 47 0 730 38
March 2007 247 25 0 0 3 0
May 2007 77 0 1,085 0 2 0
July 2007 225 0 1,169 0 1 0
December 2007 0 0 1,003 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 50,630 -386 22,614 -1,219 * 105,387 -2,515

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
9/15/2005