Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  48

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/21/2008

(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
11/21/2008 		Change From Previous Week
December 2008 1,036   192   952   -2,116   6,204   -13,497  
March 2009 7,704   381   1,492   429   80,626   1,131  
May 2009 4,985   92   1,349   132   13,617   1,710  
July 2009 9,350   65   1,156   252   15,202   438  
October 2009 973   8   40   0   128   2  
December 2009 6,205   -30   1,107   100   13,949   1,054  
March 2010 1,622   0   0   0   120   0  
May 2010 498   0   186   5   85   0  
July 2010 1,107   0   132   0   626   0  
October 2010 13   0   0   0   8   0  
December 2010 157   0   0   0   907   2  
March 2011 42   0   0   0   13   0  
May 2011 0   0   5   0   0   0  
Totals 33,692   708   6,419   -1,198   131,485   -9,160  

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, November 28, 2008.
11/28/2008
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