Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  51

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/15/2006

(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
12/15/2006 		Change From Previous Week
December 2006 0   0   0   0   0   -112  
March 2007 14,576   1,095   4,766   168   113,507   1,482  
May 2007 9,949   920   1,005   160   21,222   2,260  
July 2007 16,430   770   3,888   0   11,313   625  
October 2007 4,038   764   136   -13   187   2  
December 2007 5,853   748   2,494   11   18,877   1,370  
March 2008 1,464   167   11   -33   1,168   50  
May 2008 200   0   273   0   115   5  
July 2008 1,546   40   457   0   452   3  
October 2008 54   0   0   0   22   11  
December 2008 297   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 98   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 54,518   4,504   13,030   293   166,863   5,696  

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


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
12/21/2006