Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  01

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/29/2006

(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
12/29/2006
Change From Previous Week
March 2007 14,139   -491   4,776   341   111,433   -1,993  
May 2007 9,943   -110   1,001   9   24,160   1,992  
July 2007 16,447   -479   3,801   -253   12,848   446  
October 2007 4,020   -19   136   0   154   -13  
December 2007 5,824   -314   2,615   132   19,768   863  
March 2008 1,458   -42   0   0   1,559   87  
May 2008 200   0   273   0   115   0  
July 2008 1,590   -149   457   -106   452   0  
October 2008 54   0   0   0   22   0  
December 2008 297   -19   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 98   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 54,083   -1,623   13,059   123   170,511   1,382  

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
01/04/2007