Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report 3

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 01/16/2009

(In Contracts)

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
01/16/2009 		Change From Previous Week
March 2009 6,656   -31 * 1,221   -17   68,115   -3,468  
May 2009 5,616   -12   2,300   -27   23,173   2,365  
July 2009 10,934   75   1,556   1   19,519   1,273  
October 2009 1,163   141   40   0   286   39  
December 2009 6,920   1   1,738   366   16,840   361  
March 2010 1,866   10   0   -176   197   -24  
May 2010 742   78   0   -10   130   2  
July 2010 1,493   141   486   176   652   -19  
October 2010 13   0   0   0   8   0  
December 2010 185   21   0   0   984   -3  
March 2011 42   0   0   0   13   0  
May 2011 119   69   5   0   0   0  
July 2011 376   142   0   0   0   0  
Totals 36,125   635 * 7,346   313   129,917   526  

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

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.

If you have any questions concerning this report, email [email protected] or call the Eastern Regional
Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, January 22, 2009.
01/22/2009