Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  1

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/30/2005

(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
12/30/2005
Change From Previous Week
March 2006 13,764 -602 4,367 -1,610 80,278 653
May 2006 9,874 -16 1,440 184 16,717 1,105
July 2006 13,785 -265 7,388 142 4,832 272
October 2006 2,771 27 274 0 85 -13
December 2006 4,835 -44 522 0 3,418 63
March 2007 551 -81 0 0 28 0
May 2007 306 -54 290 0 27 0
July 2007 966 320 4,404 0 29 0
December 2007 10 0 0 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 248 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 46,888 -715 18,933 -1,284 105,414 2,080

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

1/5/2006