Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  8

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 02/17/2006

(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
02/17/2006
Change From Previous Week
March 2006 5,303 -4,468 702 -688 10,993 -31,096
May 2006 14,748 886 2,735 684 94,144 24,029
July 2006 17,639 47 8,072 796 10,238 837
October 2006 4,417 298 376 0 263 -7
December 2006 6,831 177 5,218 325 7,890 253
March 2007 1,139 12 50 2 1,724 21
May 2007 665 9 290 0 32 0
July 2007 2,365 30 4,020 0 1,412 33
October 2007 52 9 0 0 10 0
December 2007 622 109 0 0 44 2
March 2008 30 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 248 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 53,824 -2,891 21,711 1,119 126,750 -5,928

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
2/23/2006