Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  42

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/15/2004

(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
10/15/2004 		Change From Previous Week
October 2004 0 -1 0 -22 0 -255
December 2004 5,860 -823 8,590 -2,486 * 44,678 2,433
March 2005 10,004 -468 1,244 589 20,085 2,758
May 2005 8,383 -669 * 734 -6 4,799 595
July 2005 15,605 -1,140 * 272 150 5,929 609
October 2005 1,894 -94 0 0 34 1
December 2005 3,575 -92 204 0 2,560 488
March 2006 406 119 0 0 143 0
May 2006 576 -5 0 0 5 5
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 47,079 -3,173 * 11,094 -1,775 * 78,233 6,634

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
10/21/2004