Cotton On-Call Report

CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending October 5, 2001 should be faxed to (202) 418-5527 by the close of business on Wednesday, October 10, 2001.

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|                                Weekly Report No. 39
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|      "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
|      reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of  9/28/01
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|                                 (In Contracts)
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|            |                                           |    Open Futures
|            |        Call Cotton Based New York         | Contracts - New York
|            |                                           |   Cotton Exchange
|Futures     |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
|            |  Unfixed |  Change  |  Unfixed |  Change  |  At      |  Change
|Based       |  Call    |  From    |  Call    |  From    |  Close   |  From
|            |  Sales   |  Prev.   |  Purchs. |  Prev.   |          |  Prev.
|On:         |          |  Week    |          |  Week    |  9/28/01 |  Week
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|October  '01          8        -41         61        -13         28      -581
|December '01      7,824       -378     18,473        107     40,922    -1,248
|March    '02     17,935       -159      9,458         14      9,440       611
|May      '02     11,212        -62      3,067          0      5,530       105
|July     '02     17,372        -61        809         20      4,172        41
|October  '02      2,088         -3        140          0        186        -6
|December '02      2,314        -17        207          0      3,299       251
|March    '03      1,007         10          0          0        179         9
|May      '03        665         10          0          0        218         0
|July     '03        895         -9          0          0         95        12
|October  '03         11          0          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       61,411       -710     32,215        128     64,069      -806
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|2/ CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending October 5, 2001 should be faxed
|   to (202) 418-5527 by the close of business on Wednesday, October 10, 2001.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (917) 225-7817.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|10/4/01
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