Cotton On-Call Report Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  18

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 04/27/2007

(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
04/27/2007 		Change From Previous Week
May 2007 9   -529   5   -1,314   314   -8,481  
July 2007 9,169   -3,031 * 6,085   145 * 132,081   3,700  
October 2007 6,213   -90   111   0   4,309   -146  
December 2007 13,729   350   4,704   -539   64,999   2,322  
March 2008 4,150   90   155   0   14,438   1,196  
May 2008 1,358   67   269   -65   689   57  
July 2008 4,888   253   662   24   1,839   -29  
October 2008 388   0   0   -220   55   -4  
December 2008 1,298   154   427   220   1,367   60  
March 2009 499   0   0   0   160   137  
May 2009 27   0   0   0   0   0  
July 2009 26   13   53   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 41,767   -2,723 * 12,471   -1,749 * 220,251   -1,188  

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
05/03/2007