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 08/01/2003

(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
08/01/2003 		Change From Previous Week
October  2003 1,405 -344 632 13 3,453 14
December  2003 8,145 -426 7,189 86 44,911 -63
March  2004 10,467 -119 1,133 12 8,757 226
May  2004 6,617 -19 1,456 10 2,567 52
July  2004 10,122 -14 57 12 2,401 -28
October  2004 1,970 67 21 4 109 0
December  2004 2,080 88 23 0 602 7
March  2005 572 0 0 0 10 0
May  2005 306 0 0 0 25 0
July  2005 606 0 0 0 0 0
December  2005 435 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 42,725 -767 10,511 137 62,835 208

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 Vincent G. Varisano
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.


Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time

8/7/2003