ISSN: 1945-3442

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  51

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/18/2009

(In Contracts)

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
12/18/2009 		Change From Previous Week
March 2010 20,199   -579 * 3,185   -113 * 131,297   2,707  
May 2010 8,857   513   793   224 * 19,788   3,465  
July 2010 10,363   253   877   -19   21,478   1,663  
October 2010 1,730   14   0   0   140   -4  
December 2010 6,894   497   4,371   450   14,328   1,838  
March 2011 1,124   133   158   0   235   22  
May 2011 810   126   69   -197   10   0  
July 2011 889   0   125   0   455   -2  
October 2011 0   0   0   0   2   0  
December 2011 266   234   394   3   259   12  
March 2012 3   0   13   0   34   0  
May 2012 3   0   13   0   0   0  
July 2111 0   0   197   197   0   0  
Totals 51,138   1,191 * 10,195   545 * 188,026   9,701  

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

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, December 24, 2009
12/24/2009
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