Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report 33

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/15/2003

(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
08/15/2003 		Change From Previous Week
October 2003 1,070 -195 673 25 3,371 -129
December 2003 7,512 -127 7,460 38 43,086 -735
March 2004 10,867 381 1,177 44 9,114 653
May 2004 6,944 346 1,458 0 2,709 79
July 2004 10,508 435 57 0 2,346 -3
October 2004 2,088 88 21 0 110 1
December 2004 2,206 128 23 0 604 46
March 2005 571 -1 0 0 11 1
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 43,113 1,055 10,869 107 61,376 -87

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
8/21/2003