Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  52

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/26/2003

(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
12/24/2003 		Change From Previous Week
March 2004 14,064 -103 9,743 -49 54,787 -260
May 2004 8,523 72 718 5 12,211 -115
July 2004 16,626 42 186 -8 5,752 -26
October 2004 2,318 0 992 0 343 5
December 2004 3,303 47 2,093 -1 4,316 51
March 2005 1,245 0 8 0 702 0
May 2005 1,144 0 0 0 210 0
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 50,654 58 13,740 -53 78,511 -345

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

Open Futures Contracts are for December 24, 2003 because the Exchange was closed
for the Holidays on December 26, 2003.

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
1/2/2004