Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  42

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/10/2008

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
10/10/2008 		Change From Previous Week
October 2008 0   -18   0   0   0   -11  
December 2008 4,728   -973 * 9,424   -317 * 108,928   -14,039  
March 2009 9,740   -721 * 415   0 * 38,825   701  
May 2009 5,004   -200   687   7   7,337   -45  
July 2009 9,519   -822   848   0   11,277   24  
October 2009 968   16   40   0   118   3  
December 2009 6,755   -441   945   15   9,883   223  
March 2010 1,635   -13   0   0   120   45  
May 2010 479   -13 * 186   0   76   35  
July 2010 1,071   0 * 132   0   1,330   0  
October 2010 13   0 * 0   0   8   0  
December 2010 157   0 * 0   0   808   27  
March 2011 42   0   0   0   10   0  
Totals 40,111   -3,185 * 12,677   -295 * 178,720   -13,037  

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.

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, October 16, 2008.
10/16/2008
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