Cotton On-Call Report

**Weekly Report 28**

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status¹ as of 07/09/2004

**(In Contracts)**
Futures Based On:	Call Cotton Based New York				Open Futures Contracts New York Board of Trade
Futures Based On:	Unfixed Call Sales	Change From Previous Week	Unfixed Call Purchases	Change From Previous Week	At Close 07/09/2004	Change From Previous Week
July 2004	23	-60	6	-44	0	-105
October 2004	1,519	300	2,350	460	3,842	49
December 2004	7,982	-99	9,372	255	55,075	1,284
March 2005	9,127	299	162	-11	11,485	311
May 2005	7,952	806 *	817	614	2,331	45
July 2005	14,598	514 *	114	-3	1,518	127
October 2005	885	37	0	0	24	0
December 2005	2,347	197 *	0	0	1,272	107
March 2006	191	9	0	0	79	0
May 2006	529	0	0	0	0	0
July 2006	663	0	50	0	0	0
October 2006	27	0	0	0	0	0
December 2006	61	0	0	0	0	0
March 2007	74	61	0	0	0	0
May 2007	0	-61	0	0	0	0
Totals	45,978	2,003 *	12,871	1,271	75,626	1,818
¹ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future. * Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week. 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 7/15/2004