Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  31

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 07/30/2004

(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
07/30/2004
Change From Previous Week
October 2004 691 -857 1,598 -696 3,204 -432
December 2004 9,523 -622 12,010 -34 55,791 179
March 2005 9,163 -22 164 12 13,011 245
May 2005 8,724 75 1,252 2 2,973 440
July 2005 14,812 -278 127 0 3,041 1,154
October 2005 1,302 286 0 0 25 0
December 2005 2,860 493 0 0 1,684 169
March 2006 265 9 0 0 79 0
May 2006 565 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 680 0 50 0 0 0
October 2006 54 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 61 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 74 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 48,774 -916 15,201 -716 79,808 1,755

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 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

8/5/2004