Cotton On-Call Report

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 10/20/2006

(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
10/20/2006 		Change From Previous Week
December 2006 5,590   -1,061   13,641   -313   114,619   -3,905  
March 2007 13,067   418   2,078   922   44,256   3,200  
May 2007 8,372   138   549   0   6,272   285  
July 2007 13,918   317   3,917   -277   6,423   1,311  
October 2007 1,766   214   8   0   99   13  
December 2007 3,238   109   1,812   1,310   9,863   -219  
March 2008 988   0   0   -95   837   2  
May 2008 133   17   368   95   110   0  
July 2008 1,214   185   97   0   357   18  
December 2008 151   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 71   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 48,521   337   22,470   1,642   182,836   705  

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


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
10/26/2006