Cotton On-Call Report

Cotton On Call Report No. 52 for the week ending December 26, 2003 will be published on Friday, January 2, 2004.

Weekly Report  51

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/19/2003

(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
12/19/2003 		Change From Previous Week
March 2004 14,167 -1,916 * 9,792 -1,391 55,047 524
May 2004 8,451 52 * 713 48 12,326 -245
July 2004 16,584 -44 194 -1 5,778 95
October 2004 2,318 0 992 0 338 3
December 2004 3,256 -15 2,094 151 4,265 -20
March 2005 1,245 -49 8 8 702 0
May 2005 1,144 0 0 0 210 5
July 2005 1,856 0 0 0 190 0
December 2005 1,270 0 0 0 0 0
March 2006 74 0 0 0 0 0
May 2006 112 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 119 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 50,596 -1,972 * 13,793 -1,185 78,856 362

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.

This report is published by the Commission's Division of Market Oversight.
If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.


Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
12/29/2003