Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  35

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/25/2006

(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
08/25/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 2,216   -47   1,219   655   3,385   -96  
December 2006 11,973   -78   20,406   -1,230   119,965   1,300  
March 2007 10,898   621   457   64   33,588   81  
May 2007 5,689   360   449   6   1,963   173  
July 2007 11,695   300   4,344   8   2,682   146  
October 2007 843   8   8   8   46   0  
December 2007 2,832   85   494   -186   7,096   285  
March 2008 830   33   95   0   720   0  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 407   284   110   0   204   10  
December 2008 111   71   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   58   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 47,644   1,695   27,855   -675   169,734   1,899  

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
08/31/2006