Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  19

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/05/2006

(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
05/05/2006 		Change From Previous Week
May 2006 0   -322   0   -249   18   -69  
July 2006 8,405   -999   10,935   156   105,845   1,870  
October 2006 4,724   -138   413   0   1,998   221  
December 2006 10,106   56   11,513   1,050   36,965   1,520  
March 2007 4,377   193   55   0   4,560   723  
May 2007 1,977   105   290   0   298   99  
July 2007 5,762   102   4,963   -19   1,720   1  
October 2007 271   162   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,499   0   0   0   924   106  
March 2008 344   -30   248   248   40   27  
May 2008 0   0   0   -248   0   0  
July 2008 79   0   0   0   0   0  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 37,597   -871   28,417   938   152,384   4,498  

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 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
05/11/2006