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 03/05/2004

**(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 03/05/2004	Change From Previous Week
March 2004	20	-9	124	-75	96	-112
May 2004	4,689	-843	3,088	-282 *	48,112	-1,717
July 2004	13,723	-364	534	-3	15,166	298
October 2004	1,880	-46	1,123	30 *	729	64
December 2004	4,928	361	4,697	392 *	10,067	1,303
March 2005	2,986	242	191	21 *	2,252	632
May 2005	2,400	110	170	5	393	0
July 2005	3,204	-143	50	0	569	-22
October 2005	34	0	0	0	1	1
December 2005	1,435	18	0	0	166	4
March 2006	40	-146	0	0	0	0
May 2006	112	112	0	0	0	0
July 2006	119	0	50	0	0	0
March 2007	13	13	0	0	0	0
Totals	35,583	-695	10,027	88 *	77,551	451
¹ Merchants with futures positions of 50 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 3/11/2004