The Cotton On-Call Report shows the quantity of call cotton bought or sold on which the price has not been fixed, together with the respective futures on which the purchase or sale is based. Call cotton refers to physical cotton bought or sold, or contracted for purchase or sale at a price to be fixed later based upon a specified delivery month future’s price.
Weekly Report 16
"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 4/17/2014** |
(In Contracts)
ISSN: 1945-3442
|
Call Cotton Based New York |
Open Futures Contracts | ||||
Unfixed Call Sales |
Change From Previous Week |
Unfixed Call Purchases |
Change From Previous Week |
At Close |
Change From Previous Week | |
May 2014 |
6,238 |
-2,975 |
429 |
-63 |
10,621 |
-24,328 |
July 2014 |
29,183 |
947 |
2,007 |
-129 |
105,254 |
17,582 |
October 2014 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
82 |
8 |
December 2014 |
10,734 |
60 |
18,617 |
698 |
52,654 |
2,601 |
March 2015 |
8,698 |
28 |
22 |
0 |
3,798 |
46 |
May 2015 |
4,127 |
-7 |
2 |
0 * |
451 |
73 |
July 2015 |
4,134 |
50 |
1,519 |
7 * |
573 |
132 |
October 2015 |
0 |
0 |
485 |
0 * |
0 |
0 |
December 2015 |
2,055 |
51 |
2,371 |
207 * |
787 |
167 |
March 2016 |
347 |
50 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
December 2016 |
0 |
0 |
1,100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Totals |
65,516 |
-1,796 |
26,552 |
720 |
174,220 |
-3,719 |
1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.
*Changes are based on revised data submitted to CFTC.
**Report is as of 4/17/14 due to ICE holiday closure on 4/18/14.
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Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, April 24, 2014