Cotton On-Call Report

Cotton On Call Report No. 51 for the week ending December 19, 2003 will be published on Monday, December 29, 2003.
Weekly Report  50

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/12/2003

(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
12/12/2003 		Change From Previous Week
December 2003 0 -5 0 0 0 -32
March 2004 16,084 1,143 11,183 1,449 54,523 -463
May 2004 8,378 -258 665 -19 12,571 -478
July 2004 16,628 139 195 -32 5,683 -46
October 2004 2,318 8 992 -18 335 0
December 2004 3,271 -216 1,943 30 4,285 311
March 2005 1,294 0 0 -10 702 -1
May 2005 1,144 -9 0 0 205 15
July 2005 1,856 0 0 0 190 0
December 2005 1,270 0 0 0 0 0
March 2006 74 0 0 0 0 0
May 2006 112 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 119 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 52,548 802 14,978 1,400 78,494 -694

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 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 Vincent G. Varisano
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.


Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
12/18/2003