Cotton On-Call Report
CFTC Form 304 Reports for the week
ending October 26, 2001 should be faxed to (202) 418-5527 by the close of
business on Tuesday, October 30, 2001.
| Weekly Report No. 42
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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 10/19/01
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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 | 10/19/01| Week
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|December '01 6,460 -365 15,307 -1,436 32,961 -735
|March '02 15,908 -571 9,000 27 11,598 890
|May '02 10,224 -98 3,102 35 5,695 -81
|July '02 16,217 -20 821 13 4,924 174
|October '02 1,811 -71 151 0* 180 3
|December '02 2,327 9 207 0 3,725 80
|March '03 1,028 21 0 0 413 62
|May '03 699 68 0 0 220 5
|July '03 927 32 0 0 112 5
|October '03 70 59 0 0 0 0
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 55,751 -936 28,588 -1,361* 59,828 403
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|2/ October 2001 Call Purchases of 11 contracts, for the week ending October 12,
| 2001, should have been zero.
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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
|10/25/01
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