ISSN: 1945-3442

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 05/01/2009

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
05/01/2009 		Change From Previous Week
May 2009 290   39   135   -66   258   -634  
July 2009 12,529   103   2,705   -172   81,078   6,539  
October 2009 1,776   143   160   0   630   146  
December 2009 11,016   178   5,401   1,136   33,305   -757  
March 2010 4,269   42   119   10   6,094   435  
May 2010 1,355   11   143   0   192   26  
July 2010 2,557   -16   1,424   212   741   43  
October 2010 26   0   0   0   8   0  
December 2010 778   0   198   0   2,015   12  
March 2011 208   0   0   0   13   0  
May 2011 143   0   5   0   0   0  
July 2011 408   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 35,355   500   10,290   1,120   124,334   5,810  

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, May 7, 2009.
05/07/2009
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