Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  29

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 07/14/2006

(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
07/14/2006
Change From Previous Week
July 2006 0   -1   0   0   0   -32  
October 2006 2,834   -106   927   -101   5,079   -296  
December 2006 11,332   -444   20,373   -1,304   125,765   -2,208  
March 2007 5,953   605   358   27   23,664   1,417  
May 2007 2,741   99   443   123   1,223   79  
July 2007 6,549   164   4,330   0   2,259   57  
October 2007 532   14   0   0   44   0  
December 2007 1,648   108   653   0   2,788   323  
March 2008 557   33   0   0   596   15  
May 2008 39   13   273   0   85   50  
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 32,317   485   27,397   -1,255   161,503   -595  

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
07/20/2006