Cotton On-Call Report

**Weekly Report 34**

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status¹ as of 08/19/2005

**(In Contracts)**
Futures Based On:	Call Cotton Based New York				Open Futures Contracts New York Board of Trade
Futures Based On:	Unfixed Call Sales	Change From Previous Week	Unfixed Call Purchases	Change From Previous Week	At Close 08/19/2005	Change From Previous Week
October 2005	2,721	-796 *	1,473	-202	4,816	-479
December 2005	11,136	-883 *	12,693	206 *	79,012	2,809
March 2006	11,214	-264 *	310	-23	15,299	1,525
May 2006	8,200	439	911	108	1,599	85
July 2006	11,351	189	5,189	83	1,903	45
October 2006	1,805	83	146	0	0	0
December 2006	3,550	-94	436	8	678	108
March 2007	188	0	0	0	3	3
May 2007	77	0	1,067	0	2	0
July 2007	225	0	1,081	44	1	0
December 2007	0	0	990	0	0	0
March 2008	13	0	0	0	0	0
May 2008	0	0	48	0	0	0
March 2009	13	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	50,493	-1,326 *	24,344	224 *	103,313	4,096
¹ Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future. *Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week. 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 8/25/2005