Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  21

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 05/19/2006

(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
05/19/2006 		Change From Previous Week
July 2006 6,520   -1,756   11,537   1,237   109,194   -91  
October 2006 3,963   -395   417   4   2,787   244  
December 2006 11,174   376   12,501   665   51,611   4,671  
March 2007 4,451   3   55   0   7,401   1,433  
May 2007 2,180   172   320   0   399   48  
July 2007 5,914   122   4,867   39   1,756   37  
October 2007 415   90   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,579   51   441   441   945   22  
March 2008 436   67   0   -273   71   0  
May 2008 26   26   273   273   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 36,790   -1,244   30,411   2,386   174,180   6,364  

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
05/25/2006