Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  39

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/22/2006

(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
09/22/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 554   -260   140   -946   765   -1,656  
December 2006 8,862   -472 * 16,618   517 * 124,474   1,838  
March 2007 12,092   804   774   199   37,274   797  
May 2007 7,226   972   449   0   4,460   503  
July 2007 12,319   64 * 4,303   -35 * 4,552   959  
October 2007 1,311   125   8   0   66   0  
December 2007 2,740   -242   479   0   9,254   1,163  
March 2008 988   0   95   0   864   -10  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 1,009   131   97   0   248   0  
December 2008 131   20   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 47,382   1,142 * 23,236   -265 * 182,042   3,594  

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for the 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
09/28/2006