Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  39

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/19/2008

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
09/19/2008
Change From Previous Week
October 2008 266   -248   172   -35   3,117   -847  
December 2008 6,798   -1,790   9,856   -254   135,710   -9,624  
March 2009 11,460   -1,710   513   18   39,368   -2,185  
May 2009 5,739   -369   677   0   6,667   -60  
July 2009 10,686   -513   765   88   11,190   1,338  
October 2009 952   67   40   0   114   0  
December 2009 7,332   144   815   -495   9,547   337  
March 2010 1,635   0   0   0   75   0  
May 2010 456   27   186   0   41   0  
July 2010 1,062   91   132   0   1,330   0  
October 2010 0   0   0   0   8   0  
December 2010 148   0   0   0   722   489  
March 2011 42   0   0   0   10   0  
Totals 46,576   -4,301   13,156   -678   207,899   -10,552  

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, September 25, 2008.
09/25/2008
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