Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  5

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 01/30/2004

(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
01/30/2004
Change From Previous Week
March 2004 5,434 -4,727 3,777 -2,118 46,779 -17,443
May 2004 6,916 -1,066 1,137 308 25,983 6,189
July 2004 16,270 -591 301 0 8,033 439
October 2004 2,134 -15 1,062 26 534 115
December 2004 3,886 341 3,460 593 6,033 220
March 2005 2,758 268 8 0 904 81
May 2005 1,588 193 79 0 219 0
July 2005 2,383 185 0 0 209 0
December 2005 1,403 58 0 0 113 4
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 43,077 -5,354 9,824 -1,191 88,807 -10,395

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
2/5/2004