Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  7

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 02/11/2005

(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
02/11/2005
Change From Previous Week
March 2005 2,799 -826 1,378 -171 25,510 -20,488
May 2005 6,721 -98 1,448 5 44,976 22,919
July 2005 12,564 55 1,301 157 12,427 744
October 2005 3,051 155 161 0 632 115
December 2005 5,041 57 2,289 180 8,470 735
March 2006 682 0 0 0 1,494 68
May 2006 1,042 -1 0 0 636 134
July 2006 1,097 0 683 159 218 0
October 2006 256 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 226 0 0 0 125 0
March 2007 26 0 0 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 33,518 -658 7,260 330 94,488 4,227

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 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 Walter Spilka
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9777.


Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
2/17/2005