Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  45

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/04/2005

(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
11/04/2005 		Change From Previous Week
December 2005 9,180 -2,297 4,528 -1,715 65,651 -11,070
March 2006 14,993 885 1,607 652 41,189 8,513
May 2006 10,429 405 1,117 15 5,272 1,653
July 2006 14,175 654 6,798 26 3,211 263
October 2006 2,297 -24 252 0 63 0
December 2006 3,911 13 181 132 1,478 49
March 2007 260 0 0 0 3 0
May 2007 162 0 1,577 0 2 0
July 2007 312 0 2,056 43 4 0
December 2007 0 0 1,036 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 248 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 55,745 -364 19,400 -847 116,873 -592

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

Cotton On Call Report No. 47 for the week ending November 18, 2005 will be
published on Friday, November 25, 2005 at 3:00 PM because of the
Thanksgiving holiday.

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
11/10/2005