Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  17

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/23/2004

(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
04/23/2004
Change From Previous Week
May 2004 73 -949 129 -741 4,237 -14,295
July 2004 7,544 -262 1,829 994 52,451 7,677
October 2004 1,648 71 1,332 50 1,119 37
December 2004 6,030 318 6,110 42 20,634 2,432
March 2005 5,453 158 166 0 4,381 451
May 2005 4,019 197 170 0 585 28
July 2005 6,387 651 50 0 760 -39
October 2005 326 93 0 0 2 0
December 2005 1,299 -183 0 0 269 0
March 2006 121 0 0 0 26 0
May 2006 112 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 119 0 50 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 33,144 94 9,836 345 84,464 -3,709

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
4/29/2004