Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 22
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| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
| reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 5/30/2003
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Cotton Exchange
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close | From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 5/30/2003| Week
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|July '03 2,570 -169 1,081 9 34,194 -1,197
|October '03 2,507 -429 267 -4 3,085 727
|December '03 6,081 -183 6,225 153 29,348 2,434
|March '04 6,692 74 1,096 0 5,016 508
|May '04 3,857 12 23 -1 1,902 274
|July '04 5,200 -52 23 0 1,686 251
|October '04 1,445 200 14 0 1 0
|December '04 1,155 -32 21 0 202 49
|March '05 115 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 29,622 -579 8,750 157 75,434 3,046
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Market Oversight.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|6/5/2003
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