Cotton On-Call Report

CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week ending October 12,
2001 should be faxed to (202) 418-5527 by the close of
business on Tuesday, October 16, 2001.
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|                                Weekly Report No. 40
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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  10/5/01
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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    |  10/5/01 |  Week
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|October  '01          8          0         25        -36          9       -19
|December '01      7,408       -448*    18,111       -278*    36,127    -4,795
|March    '02     17,288       -654*     9,516         58     10,214       774
|May      '02     10,623       -498*     3,067          0      5,706       176
|July     '02     16,696       -542*       810          1      4,321       149
|October  '02      2,012        -76        140          0        163       -23
|December '02      2,212        -88*       207          0      3,511       212
|March    '03      1,007          0          0          0        273        94
|May      '03        628          0*         0          0        213        -5
|July     '03        895          0          0          0        100         5
|October  '03         11          0          0          0          0         0
|December '03         80          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       58,868     -2,306*    31,876       -255*    60,637    -3,432
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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 12, 2001 should be faxed
|   to (202) 418-5527 by the close of business on Tuesday, October 16, 2001.
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|* Changes from previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|10/11/01
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