Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  20

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/09/2008

(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
05/09/2008 		Change From Previous Week
May 2008 0   -26   0   -1   305   -1,297  
July 2008 13,937   -629   1,917   148   125,337   -25  
October 2008 4,348   -20   124   0   2,953   280  
December 2008 19,032   248   7,595   -437   103,354   2,650  
March 2009 6,923   202   131   -3   10,672   1,433  
May 2009 3,263   33   288   0   1,399   -45  
July 2009 6,928   20   342   0   1,688   41  
October 2009 585   173   377   0   74   0  
December 2009 5,296   0   271   14   3,669   190  
March 2010 1,167   0   0   0   50   0  
May 2010 111   0   10   0   6   6  
July 2010 148   0   132   0   1,332   1  
October 2010 0   0   0   0   7   0  
December 2010 148   0   0   0   108   2  
March 2011 29   0   0   0   6   6  
Totals 61,915   1   11,187   -279   250,960   3,242  

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, May 15, 2008.
05/15/2008
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