Cotton On-Call Report

**Weekly Report 9**

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status¹ as of 02/24/2006

**(In Contracts)**
Futures Based On:	Call Cotton Based New York				Open Futures Contracts New York Board of Trade
Futures Based On:	Unfixed Call Sales	Change From Previous Week	Unfixed Call Purchases	Change From Previous Week	At Close 02/24/2006	Change From Previous Week
March 2006	586	-4,635 *	192	-412 *	3,305	-7,688
May 2006	15,332	551 *	3,016	281	96,868	2,724
July 2006	17,937	298	8,194	172 *	12,340	2,102
October 2006	4,858	441	380	4	263	0
December 2006	7,136	305	5,494	277 *	8,415	525
March 2007	1,139	0	55	5	1,730	6
May 2007	665	0	290	0	33	1
July 2007	2,365	0	4,064	44	1,488	76
October 2007	52	0	0	0	20	10
December 2007	622	0	0	0	52	8
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	50,735	-3,040 *	21,933	371 *	124,514	-2,236
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. 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 3/2/2006