Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  38

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/15/2006

(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
09/15/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 814   -270   1,086   -4   2,421   -751  
December 2006 9,489   -728   16,243   832   122,636   -325  
March 2007 11,288   473   575   12   36,477   1,696  
May 2007 6,254   530   449   0   3,957   907  
July 2007 12,265   210   4,337   -36   3,593   617  
October 2007 1,186   116   8   0   66   20  
December 2007 2,982   -10   479   -7   8,091   195  
March 2008 988   149   95   0   874   154  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 878   278   97   0   248   0  
December 2008 111   -35   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 46,405   713   23,642   797   178,448   2,513  

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
09/21/2006