Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  41

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/06/2006

(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
10/06/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 0   0   0   0   7   -290  
December 2006 6,977   129   15,684   508   122,731   -1,884  
March 2007 12,420   -401   1,102   261   39,711   2,505  
May 2007 7,831   294   449   0   5,671   834  
July 2007 13,459   13   4,229   0   4,959   204  
October 2007 1,582   89   8   0   89   23  
December 2007 3,129   -2   503   -9   9,877   306  
March 2008 988   0   95   0   830   -34  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   93   8  
July 2008 1,009   0   97   0   314   48  
December 2008 131   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 47,676   122   22,440   760   184,282   1,720  

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
10/12/2006