Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  43

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/22/2004

(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
10/22/2004 		Change From Previous Week
December 2004 5,682 -169 * 6,860 -1,730 41,745 -2,933
March 2005 9,295 -709 2,280 1,036 22,659 2,574
May 2005 7,840 -543 756 22 5,443 644
July 2005 14,976 -629 294 22 6,413 484
October 2005 1,894 0 0 0 44 10
December 2005 3,559 -16 204 0 2,957 397
March 2006 406 0 0 0 164 21
May 2006 576 0 0 0 55 50
July 2006 722 13 72 22 0 0
October 2006 54 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 45,017 -2,053 * 10,466 -628 79,480 1,247

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
10/28/2004