Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  32

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/04/2006

(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
08/04/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 2,441   -74   1,324   168   3,813   -488  
December 2006 12,668   391   21,963   -427   121,566   -1,142  
March 2007 9,564   664   380   0   28,618   1,545  
May 2007 4,855   286   443   0   1,512   163  
July 2007 10,471   381   4,362   -24   2,384   -17  
October 2007 805   89   0   0   44   0  
December 2007 2,293   42   691   -7   4,382   844  
March 2008 640   21   95   0   705   -6  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 79   0   128   0   181   0  
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 43,948   1,800   29,659   -290   163,290   899  

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
08/10/2006