Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  40

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/01/2004

(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
10/01/2004 		Change From Previous Week
October 2004 3 -86 44 20 392 -384
December 2004 6,773 -2,380 * 10,765 -1,811 44,039 642
March 2005 9,824 187 742 275 16,566 814
May 2005 8,810 -394 745 -396 4,160 238
July 2005 16,397 65 122 0 5,289 254
October 2005 1,876 50 0 0 33 2
December 2005 3,554 -56 4 0 2,067 38
March 2006 287 0 0 0 143 -2
May 2006 581 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 709 0 50 0 0 0
October 2006 54 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 48,881 -2,614 * 12,472 -1,912 72,689 1,602

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.

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
10/7/2004