Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  34

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/18/2006

(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
08/18/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 2,263   -179   564   -728   3,481   1  
December 2006 12,051   -1,078   21,636   705   118,665   -1,001  
March 2007 10,277   571   393   -9   33,507   3,718  
May 2007 5,329   417   443   0   1,790   176  
July 2007 11,395   855   4,336   0   2,536   78  
October 2007 835   30   0   0   46   0  
December 2007 2,747   416   680   -11   6,811   761  
March 2008 797   157   95   0   720   0  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 123   44   110   0   194   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 45,949   1,233   28,530   -43   167,835   3,733  

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
08/24/2006