Historical Cotton On-Call

The Cotton On-Call Report shows the quantity of call cotton bought or sold on which the price has not been fixed, together with the respective futures on which the purchase or sale is based. Call cotton refers to physical cotton bought or sold, or contracted for purchase or sale at a price to be fixed later based upon a specified delivery month future’s price.

Weekly Report 1 - January 1, 2010

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of January 1, 2010 (in Contracts).

ISSN: 1945-3442



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
12/31/2009

Change From Previous Week

March 2010

18,311  

-942  

3,118  

-54  

127,329  

1,032  

May 2010

9,800  

729  

774  

-21  

21,965  

1,505  

July 2010

11,153  

296  

844  

-15  

22,299  

1,018  

October 2010

1,734  

0  

0  

0  

159  

4  

December 2010

7,843  

437  

4,756  

2  

15,044  

735  

March 2011

1,509  

280  

158  

0  

327  

56  

May 2011

932  

82  

69  

0  

10  

0  

July 2011

1,029  

53  

125  

0  

529  

70  

October 2011

0  

0  

0  

0  

2  

0  

December 2011

726  

64  

399  

5  

262  

0  

March 2012

144  

53  

13  

0  

34  

0  

May 2012

62  

0  

13  

0  

0  

0  

July 2111

0  

0  

197  

0  

0  

0  

Totals

53,243  

1,052  

10,466  

-83  

187,960  

4,420  

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

Open futures contracts are for December 31, 2009 because the Exchange was closed for the Holiday on January 1, 2010.

If you have any questions concerning this report, email [email protected] or call the Eastern Regional Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, January 7, 2010