Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  20

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/13/2005

(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
05/13/2005 		Change From Previous Week
May 2005 0 -210 0 -461 0 -1,938
July 2005 12,032 -520 * 1,885 -48 * 78,023 -4,448
October 2005 5,498 182 * 433 2 2,343 -25
December 2005 11,335 756 * 10,211 -613 * 20,535 1,371
March 2006 7,366 232 * 153 0 2,693 9
May 2006 3,997 78 40 0 604 9
July 2006 5,604 56 2,338 -77 * 557 0
October 2006 1,153 79 600 132 0 0
December 2006 2,115 31 55 44 183 0
March 2007 139 0 0 0 0 0
May 2007 63 63 30 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 48 0 0 0
March 2009 13 13 0 0 0 0
Totals 49,328 760 * 15,793 -1,021 * 104,938 -5,022

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

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for the 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
5/19/2005