Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  43

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/17/2008

(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
10/17/2008 		Change From Previous Week
December 2008 3,695   -1,033   7,503   -1,921   100,670   -8,258  
March 2009 9,099   -641   534   119   38,140   -685  
May 2009 5,019   15   693   6   7,434   97  
July 2009 9,410   -109   848   0   11,175   -102  
October 2009 948   -20   40   0   108   -10  
December 2009 6,711   -44   957   12   10,233   350  
March 2010 1,635   0   0   0   120   0  
May 2010 479   0   186   0   77   1  
July 2010 1,071   0   132   0   1,091   -239  
October 2010 13   0   0   0   8   0  
December 2010 157   0   0   0   843   35  
March 2011 42   0   0   0   10   0  
Totals 38,279   -1,832   10,893   -1,784   169,909   -8,811  

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, October 23, 2008.
10/23/2008
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