Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  18

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/30/2004

(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
04/30/2004
Change From Previous Week
May 2004 19 -54 66 -63 1,047 -3,190
July 2004 4,740 -2,804 1,651 -178 50,679 -1,772
October 2004 1,257 -391 1,311 -21 1,633 514
December 2004 5,426 -604 6,886 776 24,635 4,001
March 2005 5,224 -229 166 0 4,816 435
May 2005 3,887 -132 170 0 836 251
July 2005 6,638 251 50 0 757 -3
October 2005 407 81 0 0 2 0
December 2005 1,218 -81 0 0 449 180
March 2006 121 0 0 0 76 50
May 2006 112 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 119 0 50 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 29,181 -3,963 10,350 514 84,930 466

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 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
5/6/2004