Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  42

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/12/2007

(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
10/12/2007 		Change From Previous Week
October 2007 0   0   0   0   0   -1  
December 2007 14,470   -114   6,131   -4,962 * 138,407   -4,234  
March 2008 16,392   483   1,475   573   59,232   2,077  
May 2008 6,860   151 * 783   146   7,026   638  
July 2008 12,881   -31 * 552   16   8,407   1,015  
October 2008 1,709   -28   20   0   285   19  
December 2008 7,887   610   833   45   19,516   975  
March 2009 1,011   13   40   0   1,067   0  
May 2009 607   105   513   0   270   0  
July 2009 848   117   0   0   71   2  
October 2009 74   0   0   0   0   0  
December 2009 1,917   86   53   0   0   0  
March 2010 831   72   0   0   0   0  
May 2010 66   0   0   0   0   0  
July 2010 66   66   0   0   0   0  
December 2010 66   66   0   0   0   0  
Totals 65,685   1,596 * 10,400   -4,182 * 234,281   491  

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

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, October 18, 2007.
10/18/2007