Cotton On-Call Report

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 09/01/2006

(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
09/01/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 1,593   -623   1,075   -144   3,158   -227  
December 2006 11,172   -801   20,348   -58   121,072   1,107  
March 2007 11,212   314   519   62   34,690   1,102  
May 2007 5,739   50   449   0   2,789   826  
July 2007 12,114   419   4,289   -55   2,747   65  
October 2007 1,028   185   8   0   46   0  
December 2007 3,192   360   488   -6   7,610   514  
March 2008 809   -21   95   0   720   0  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 477   70   97   -13   247   43  
December 2008 111   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 47,597   -47   27,641   -214   173,164   3,430  

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
09/07/2006