Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  37

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/08/2006

(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
09/08/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 1,084   -509   1,090   15   3,172   14  
December 2006 10,217   -955   15,411   -4,937   122,961   1,889  
March 2007 10,815   -397   563   44   34,781   91  
May 2007 5,724   -15   449   0   3,050   261  
July 2007 12,055   -59   4,373   84   2,976   229  
October 2007 1,070   42   8   0   46   0  
December 2007 2,992   -200   486   -2   7,896   286  
March 2008 839   30   95   0   720   0  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 600   123   97   0   248   1  
December 2008 146   35   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 45,692   -1,905   22,845   -4,796   175,935   2,771  

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
09/14/2006