Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  45

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/03/2006

(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
11/03/2006 		Change From Previous Week
December 2006 4,464   -1,183   11,348   -430   95,549   -13,098  
March 2007 12,937   -170   2,758   16   60,961   12,269  
May 2007 8,362   -144   646   97   8,181   1,205  
July 2007 14,400   255   3,883   47   7,423   485  
October 2007 1,809   -40   8   0   102   3  
December 2007 3,309   29   1,900   -1   11,552   1,120  
March 2008 1,001   13   0   0   908   29  
May 2008 133   0   368   0   110   0  
July 2008 1,236   0   97   0   357   0  
October 2008 0   0   0   0   1   1  
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 47,886   -1,240   21,008   -271   185,144   2,014  

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
11/09/2006