Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  30

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 07/21/2006

(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
07/21/2006
Change From Previous Week
October 2006 2,455   -379   1,137   210   4,760   -319  
December 2006 11,815   483   21,657   1,284   124,477   -1,288  
March 2007 6,993   1,040   358   0   24,923   1,259  
May 2007 3,355   614   443   0   1,259   36  
July 2007 7,801   1,252   4,422   92   2,287   28  
October 2007 582   50   0   0   44   0  
December 2007 1,780   132   664   11   3,090   302  
March 2008 599   42   162   162   705   109  
May 2008 66   27   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 79   0   128   88   25   25  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   13   0   0   0   0  
Totals 35,591   3,274   29,244   1,847   161,655   152  

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
07/27/2006