Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  12

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 03/18/2005

(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
03/18/2005
Change From Previous Week
March 2005 0 0 0 -44 0 -101
May 2005 6,798 -551 1,613 -48 82,852 -3,034
July 2005 14,176 375 2,040 60 * 24,029 1,968
October 2005 4,917 238 609 -44 * 1,491 -37
December 2005 7,768 1,026 7,281 490 * 10,422 487
March 2006 3,657 1,271 42 -46 1,941 351
May 2006 2,432 338 30 0 573 -35
July 2006 3,300 564 1,513 44 * 482 54
October 2006 458 127 0 0 0 0
December 2006 1,304 22 0 0 138 6
March 2007 108 82 0 0 0 0
May 2007 0 0 30 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 48 0 0 0
Totals 44,931 3,492 13,206 412 * 121,928 -341

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
3/24/2005