Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  10

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 03/03/2006

(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
03/03/2006 		Change From Previous Week
March 2006 292 -294 192 0 2,298 -1,007
May 2006 11,721 -3,611 2,958 -58 91,849 -5,019
July 2006 16,651 -1,286 8,241 47 15,762 3,422
October 2006 4,760 -98 364 -16 406 143
December 2006 7,166 30 6,863 1,369 10,378 1,963
March 2007 2,171 1,032 55 0 1,773 43
May 2007 1,129 464 290 0 119 86
July 2007 3,369 1,004 4,064 0 1,481 -7
October 2007 52 0 0 0 20 0
December 2007 1,312 690 0 0 58 6
March 2008 60 30 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 248 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 48,696 -2,039 23,275 1,342 124,144 -370

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
3/9/2006