Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  23

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 06/03/2005

(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
06/03/2005
Change From Previous Week
July 2005 4,383 -3,253 1,495 -75 53,849 -11,118
October 2005 4,412 -897 750 276 4,399 1,858
December 2005 9,705 -1,452 10,419 835 30,231 5,364
March 2006 7,112 -424 272 22 3,639 438
May 2006 3,815 -357 47 0 853 220
July 2006 5,325 -334 2,750 62 866 288
October 2006 1,233 18 815 143 0 0
December 2006 2,112 -1 55 0 188 0
March 2007 139 0 0 0 0 0
May 2007 63 0 30 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 48 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 38,325 -6,700 16,681 1,263 94,025 -2,950

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
6/9/2005