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

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