Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  22

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/26/2006

(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
05/26/2006 		Change From Previous Week
July 2006 5,065   -1,455   10,945   -592   105,612   -3,582  
October 2006 3,768   -195   422   5   2,894   107  
December 2006 11,004   -170   12,788   287   53,516   1,905  
March 2007 4,323   -128   53   -2   9,787   2,386  
May 2007 2,028   -152   323   3   462   63  
July 2007 5,749   -165   4,884   17   1,700   -56  
October 2007 415   0   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,334   -245   441   0   956   11  
March 2008 524   88   0   0   71   0  
May 2008 26   0   273   0   0   0  
July 2008 79   0   62   62   0   0  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 34,368   -2,422   30,191   -220   175,014   834  

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
06/01/2006