Cotton On-Call Report

CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending October 26, 2001 should be faxed to (202) 418-5527 by the close of business on Tuesday, October 30, 2001.
|                                Weekly Report No. 42
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|      "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
|      reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of  10/19/01
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|                                 (In Contracts)
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|            |                                           |    Open Futures
|            |        Call Cotton Based New York         | Contracts - New York
|            |                                           |   Cotton Exchange
|Futures     |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
|            |  Unfixed |  Change  |  Unfixed |  Change  |  At      |  Change
|Based       |  Call    |  From    |  Call    |  From    |  Close   |  From
|            |  Sales   |  Prev.   |  Purchs. |  Prev.   |          |  Prev.
|On:         |          |  Week    |          |  Week    |  10/19/01|  Week
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|December '01      6,460       -365     15,307     -1,436     32,961      -735
|March    '02     15,908       -571      9,000         27     11,598       890
|May      '02     10,224        -98      3,102         35      5,695       -81
|July     '02     16,217        -20        821         13      4,924       174
|October  '02      1,811        -71        151          0*       180         3
|December '02      2,327          9        207          0      3,725        80
|March    '03      1,028         21          0          0        413        62
|May      '03        699         68          0          0        220         5
|July     '03        927         32          0          0        112         5
|October  '03         70         59          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       55,751       -936     28,588     -1,361*    59,828       403
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|2/ October 2001 Call Purchases of 11 contracts, for the week ending October 12,
|   2001, should have been zero.
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|* Changes from previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (917) 225-7817.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|10/25/01
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