Historical Cotton On-Call

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.

Special Announcement

Due to the Federal holiday on Thursday, November 22, the weekly Cotton On-Call market report will be released on Friday, November 23 at 3:30pm.

Weekly Report 46

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/16/2018

(In Contracts)

ISSN: 1945-3442

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.
Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
11/16/2018		 Change From Previous Week
December 2018 7,174   -6,951   9,801   -4,047   24,363   -40,366  
March 2019 42,354   -484   8,360   1,221   126,971   15,616  
May 2019 20,585   313   1,610   709   32,885   3,844  
July 2019 30,566   873   2,176   90   16,415   1,714  
October 2019 0   0   0   0   4   0  
December 2019 16,415   24   17,722   271   30,479   1,387  
March 2020 5,513   76   214   -61   943   5  
May 2020 2,100   0   0   0   88   0  
July 2020 1,872   0   0   0   33   0  
December 2020 1,166   0   2,500   0   876   42  
Totals 127,745   -6,149   42,383   -1,817   233,057   -17,758  

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.

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Release after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, November 23, 2018.
11/21/2018
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