Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  20

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/12/2006

(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
05/12/2006 		Change From Previous Week
May 2006 0   0   0   0   0   -18  
July 2006 8,276   -129   10,300   -635   109,285   3,440  
October 2006 4,358   -366   413   0   2,543   545  
December 2006 10,798   692   11,836   323   46,940   9,975  
March 2007 4,448   71   55   0   5,968   1,408  
May 2007 2,008   31   320   30   351   53  
July 2007 5,792   30   4,828   -135   1,719   -1  
October 2007 325   54   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,528   29   0   0   923   -1  
March 2008 369   25   273   25   71   31  
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 38,034   437   28,025   -392   167,816   15,432  

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
05/18/2006