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
Futures Based On:	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