Historical Cotton On-Call
Special Announcement
November 17, 2025: The processing and publication of Cotton On-Call was interrupted from October 1 – November 12 due to a lapse in federal appropriations. Following a return to normal operations, the CFTC will resume publication of the Cotton On-Call reports in chronological order. Beginning with Report #39, CFTC will publish reports daily until the normal publishing schedule is resumed at Report #47.
Cotton-On-Call (COC) Report Description
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 41
| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/10/2025 |
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(In Contracts)
ISSN: 1945-3442
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Futures |
Call Cotton Based New York |
Open Futures Contracts |
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| Unfixed Call Sales | Change From Previous Week | Unfixed Call Purchases | Change From Previous Week |
At Close 10/10/2025 |
Change From Previous Week | |
| December 2025 | 13,158 | -2,552 | 55,559 | -1,627 | 172,330 | 6,866 |
| March 2026 | 13,673 | 311 | 10,140 | 294 | 62,541 | 4,391 |
| May 2026 | 5,386 | 115 | 1,701 | 83 | 20,857 | 3,078 |
| July 2026 | 7,425 | 41 | 4,035 | 220 | 14,629 | 563 |
| October 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| December 2026 | 5,090 | 601 | 38,916 | 1,496 | 20,910 | 646 |
| March 2027 | 1,038 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 180 | -11 |
| May 2027 | 591 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 85 | 0 |
| July 2027 | 466 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | -4 |
| December 2027 | 265 | 0 | 1,622 | 0 | 41 | 12 |
| March 2028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| May 2028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| July 2028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| December 2028 | 0 | 0 | 503 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| December 2029 | 0 | 0 | 445 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 47,092 | -1,485 | 112,971 | 466 | 291,683 | 15,542 |
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Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future. |
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