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 17

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of April 27, 2012 (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
04/27/2012

Change From Previous Week

May 2012

490  

-1,642  

518  

-552  

173  

-1,435  

July 2012

19,616  

-206  

6,404  

-809  

100,828  

-3,448  

October 2012

25  

0  

0  

0  

94  

-1  

December 2012

9,992  

744  

14,201  

-24  

72,316  

2,930  

March 2013

5,780  

40  

0  

0  

4,418  

173  

May 2013

2,292  

30  

8  

3  

788  

89  

July 2013

3,672  

0  

3,106  

0  

3,121  

217  

October 2013

0  

-53  

0  

0  

3  

0  

December 2013

1,800  

53  

3,209  

0  

691  

76  

March 2014

188  

0  

1,000  

0  

11  

0  

May 2014

0  

0  

0  

0  

38  

0  

December 2014

0  

0  

0  

0  

1  

1  

Totals

43,855  

-1,034  

28,446  

-1,382  

182,482  

-1,398 

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

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Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, May 3, 2012