Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  23

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 06/02/2006

(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
06/02/2006 		Change From Previous Week
July 2006 4,281   -784   11,526   581   90,909   -14,703  
October 2006 3,197   -571   408   -14   8,317   5,423  
December 2006 11,133   129   13,966   1,178   61,961   8,445  
March 2007 4,523   200   55   2   12,526   2,739  
May 2007 2,273   245   320   -3   603   141  
July 2007 6,240   491   4,880   -4   1,855   155  
October 2007 415   0   0   0   16   0  
December 2007 1,425   91   441   0   1,196   240  
March 2008 524   0   0   0   70   -1  
May 2008 26   0   273   0   0   0  
July 2008 79   0   62   0   0   0  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 34,169   -199   31,931   1,740   177,453   2,439  

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
06/08/2006