Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  47

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/19/2004

(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
11/19/2004
Change From Previous Week
December 2004 438 -2,542 341 -3,605 4,028 -20,085
March 2005 9,075 -47 3,000 421 53,797 8,932
May 2005 7,229 88 882 115 8,865 1,767
July 2005 14,499 127 406 106 9,818 1,142
October 2005 2,188 156 141 141 134 70
December 2005 3,670 47 369 47 5,559 734
March 2006 362 5 0 0 885 41
May 2006 631 0 0 0 305 10
July 2006 752 0 116 44 100 0
October 2006 54 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 30 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 38,941 -2,166 5,255 -2,731 83,491 -7,389

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 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
11/26/2004