Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  33

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/11/2006

(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
08/11/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 2,442   1   1,292   -32   3,480   -333  
December 2006 13,129   461   20,931   -1,032   119,666   -1,900  
March 2007 9,706   142   402   22   29,789   1,171  
May 2007 4,912   57   443   0   1,614   102  
July 2007 10,540   69   4,336   -26   2,458   74  
October 2007 805   0   0   0   46   2  
December 2007 2,331   38   691   0   6,050   1,668  
March 2008 640   0   95   0   720   15  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 79   0   110   -18   194   13  
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 44,716   768   28,573   -1,086   164,102   812  

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
08/17/2006