Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  17

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/21/2006

(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
04/21/2006 		Change From Previous Week
May 2006 36   -2,799   61   -1,157   1,551   -32,310  
July 2006 13,776   -1,055   10,529   715   97,702   21,393  
October 2006 4,951   79   613   -750   1,720   -2  
December 2006 10,479   172   10,409   447   32,362   6,993  
March 2007 3,953   209   55   0   2,489   212  
May 2007 1,872   136   290   0   128   2  
July 2007 5,586   225   4,855   521   1,469   60  
October 2007 109   8   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,473   8   0   0   808   306  
March 2008 319   58   0   0   3   2  
May 2008 0   0   248   0   0   0  
July 2008 79   79   0   0   0   0  
December 2008 40   40   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 42,686   -2,840   27,060   -224   138,248   -3,344  

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


This report is published by the Commission's Division of Market Oversight.
If you have any questions concerning this report, call Walter Spilka,
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9777.

Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
04/27/2006