ISSN: 1945-3442

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  42

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/16/2009

(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
10/16/2009 		Change From Previous Week
December 2009 16,858   491 * 7,587   -1,927   115,369   13,744  
March 2010 15,807   2,065   2,126   160   38,030   4,142  
May 2010 5,814   278   422   29   3,314   4  
July 2010 8,108   245   1,162   -402   6,531   1,279  
October 2010 873   26   7   -6   75   5  
December 2010 4,363   229   521   -101   4,840   429  
March 2011 807   0   0   0   86   52  
May 2011 548   0   422   0   10   5  
July 2011 884   0   13   13   25   24  
October 2011 0   0   0   0   2   0  
December 2011 73   0   360   13   29   12  
March 2012 0   0   13   13   4   0  
May 2012 0   0   13   13   0   0  
Totals 54,135   3,334 * 12,646   -2,195   168,315   19,696  

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

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

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Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, October 22, 2009
10/22/2009
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