Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  16

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/14/2006

(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
04/13/0006 		Change From Previous Week
May 2006 2,835   -1,037   1,218   -451   33,861   -31,007  
July 2006 14,831   -629   9,814   356   76,309   27,492  
October 2006 4,872   5   1,363   -4   1,722   61  
December 2006 10,307   255   9,962   594   25,369   3,999  
March 2007 3,744   82   55   0   2,277   56  
May 2007 1,736   15   290   0   126   13  
July 2007 5,361   23   4,334   49   1,409   -3  
October 2007 101   0   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,465   0   0   0   502   20  
March 2008 261   0   0   0   1   0  
May 2008 0   0   248   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 45,526   -1,286   27,284   544   141,592   631  

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.

Open futures contracts are for April 13, 2006 because the Exchange was
closed for the Holiday on April 14, 2006.

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
04/20/2006