ISSN: 1945-3442

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 08/21/2009

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
08/21/2009 		Change From Previous Week
October 2009 1,203   -348   2,597   -122   1,777   -87  
December 2009 17,253   -533   8,655   -59   95,436   -7,982  
March 2010 9,677   307   445   -1   21,718   1,659  
May 2010 4,859   259   333   0   1,566   152  
July 2010 6,124   54   1,400   10   3,563   27  
October 2010 636   0   0   0   15   0  
December 2010 2,963   0   625   0   2,505   99  
March 2011 423   0   0   0   33   0  
May 2011 342   75   290   93   5   0  
July 2011 708   100   0   0   1   0  
October 2011 0   0   0   0   2   0  
December 2011 0   0   0   0   22   10  
March 2012 0   0   0   0   4   0  
Totals 44,188   -86   14,345   -79   126,647   -6,122  

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, August 27, 2009.
08/27/2009
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