Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  21

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/20/2005

(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
05/20/2005 		Change From Previous Week
July 2005 8,646 -3,385 * 1,680 -205 66,404 -11,619
October 2005 5,374 -145 * 431 -2 2,542 199
December 2005 11,242 -83 * 9,435 -776 22,150 1,615
March 2006 7,424 88 * 243 90 3,202 509
May 2006 4,160 111 * 40 0 636 32
July 2006 5,654 46 * 2,542 204 573 16
October 2006 1,215 59 * 672 72 0 0
December 2006 2,112 -3 55 0 188 5
March 2007 139 0 0 0 0 0
May 2007 63 0 30 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 48 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 46,055 -3,312 * 15,176 -617 95,695 -9,243

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

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

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
5/26/2005