Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  31

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 07/28/2006

(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
07/28/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 2,515   60   1,156   19   4,301   -459  
December 2006 12,277   462   22,390   733   122,708   -1,769  
March 2007 8,900   1,907   380   22   27,073   2,150  
May 2007 4,569   1,214   443   0   1,349   90  
July 2007 10,090   2,289   4,386   -36   2,401   114  
October 2007 716   134   0   0   44   0  
December 2007 2,251   471   698   34   3,538   448  
March 2008 619   20   95   -67   711   6  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 79   0   128   0   181   156  
December 2008 40   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 13   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 42,148   6,557   29,949   705   162,391   736  

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
08/03/2006