Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  28

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 07/07/2006

(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
07/07/2006 		Change From Previous Week
July 2006 1   -105   0   0   32   -74  
October 2006 2,940   -496   1,028   -9   5,375   -338  
December 2006 11,776   -186   21,677   220   127,973   846  
March 2007 5,348   -29   331   60   22,247   1,615  
May 2007 2,642   3   320   0   1,144   15  
July 2007 6,385   -53   4,330   83   2,202   -104  
October 2007 518   11   0   0   44   15  
December 2007 1,540   7   653   15   2,465   54  
March 2008 524   0   0   0   581   0  
May 2008 26   0   273   0   35   0  
July 2008 79   0   40   0   0   0  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 31,832   -848   28,652   369   162,098   2,029  

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
07/13/2006