Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  47

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/17/2006

(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
11/17/2006 		Change From Previous Week
December 2006 983   -2,356   4,321   -3,855   16,039   -38,046  
March 2007 13,862   1,005   3,263   909   106,116   21,273  
May 2007 8,635   277   676   115   15,519   4,446  
July 2007 14,741   236   3,930   35   9,751   1,503  
October 2007 2,258   170   8   0   140   36  
December 2007 3,623   197   2,543   374   14,273   1,933  
March 2008 1,085   84   71   0   960   -5  
May 2008 167   34   368   0   110   0  
July 2008 1,368   0   97   0   399   1  
October 2008 0   0   0   0   6   0  
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 46,957   -353   15,277   -2,422   163,313   -8,859  

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
11/24/2006