Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  40

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 09/29/2006

(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
09/29/2006 		Change From Previous Week
October 2006 0   -554   0   -140   297   -468  
December 2006 6,848   -2,014   15,176   -1,442   124,615   141  
March 2007 12,821   729   841   67   37,206   -68  
May 2007 7,537   311   449   0   4,837   377  
July 2007 13,446   1,127   4,229   -74   4,755   203  
October 2007 1,493   182   8   0   66   0  
December 2007 3,131   391   512   33   9,571   317  
March 2008 988   0   95   0   864   0  
May 2008 66   0   273   0   85   0  
July 2008 1,009   0   97   0   266   18  
December 2008 131   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 47,554   172   21,680   -1,556   182,562   520  

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
10/05/2006