Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  41

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/05/2007

(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
10/05/2007
Change From Previous Week
October 2007 0   0   0   0   1   -5  
December 2007 14,584   -954   11,046   -1,857   142,641   -2,074  
March 2008 15,909   468   902   0   57,155   3,500  
May 2008 6,683   78   637   0   6,388   385  
July 2008 12,894   40   536   -9   7,392   75  
October 2008 1,737   0   20   0   266   2  
December 2008 7,277   294   788   74   18,541   138  
March 2009 998   14   40   0   1,067   0  
May 2009 502   304   513   0   270   0  
July 2009 731   -172   0   0   69   0  
October 2009 74   0   0   0   0   0  
December 2009 1,831   0   53   0   0   0  
March 2010 759   0   0   0   0   0  
May 2010 66   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 64,045   72   14,535   -1,792   233,790   2,021  

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


If you have any questions concerning this report, email [email protected] call the Eastern Regional
Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, October 11, 2007.
10/11/2007