Cotton On-Call Report Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  21

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/18/2007

(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
05/18/2007		 Change From Previous Week
July 2007 6,163   -229   7,843   725   128,293   -8,158  
October 2007 5,857   230   85   -57   4,523   258  
December 2007 13,581   201   5,349   159   65,551   2,628  
March 2008 6,749   498   84   0   18,522   1,314  
May 2008 2,591   278   334   0   899   8  
July 2008 6,973   338   853   191   2,416   151  
October 2008 392   4   0   0   55   0  
December 2008 3,235   27   427   0   1,622   35  
March 2009 499   0   0   0   125   0  
May 2009 27   0   0   0   30   30  
July 2009 26   0   53   0   0   0  
December 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 26   0   0   0   0   0  
May 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 46,145   1,347   15,028   1,018   222,036   -3,734  

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
05/24/2007