Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  36

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 08/31/2007

(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
08/31/2007
Change From Previous Week
October 2007 2,171   -439   385   11   4,506   -436  
December 2007 14,907   -737   11,003   484   126,023   1,160  
March 2008 13,746   147   535   85   45,360   1,871  
May 2008 5,824   48   853   135   4,378   350  
July 2008 12,529   1,250   547   13   5,396   494  
October 2008 1,525   119   0   0   236   90  
December 2008 6,052   873   566   48   16,501   1,166  
March 2009 951   121   50   0   536   244  
May 2009 181   59   513   0   278   0  
July 2009 822   0   0   0   3   0  
October 2009 74   0   0   0   0   0  
December 2009 1,109   0   97   0   0   0  
March 2010 324   0   0   0   0   0  
May 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 60,228   1,441   14,549   776   203,217   4,939  

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

If you have any questions concerning this report, email email [email protected] call the Eastern Regional
Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, September 6, 2007.
09/06/2007