Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  48

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/24/2006

(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
11/22/2006
Change From Previous Week
December 2006 22   -961   73   -4,248   1,809   -14,230  
March 2007 14,011   149   4,714   1,451   109,704   3,588  
May 2007 9,062   427   838   162   16,343   824  
July 2007 15,715   974   3,989   59   10,060   309  
October 2007 3,149   891   162   154   135   -5  
December 2007 4,305   682   2,460   -83   15,945   1,672  
March 2008 1,164   79   0   -71   1,025   65  
May 2008 167   0   368   0   110   0  
July 2008 1,368   0   97   0   428   29  
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 49,198   2,241   12,701   -2,576   155,565   -7,748  

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

Open futures contracts are for November 22, 2006 because the Exchange was
closed on November 24, 2006 due to 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
11/30/2006