Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  48

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/26/2004

(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
11/24/2004 		Change From Previous Week
December 2004 121 -317 326 -15 1,690 -2,338
March 2005 9,664 589 3,186 186 53,524 -273
May 2005 7,079 -150 882 0 9,124 259
July 2005 14,501 2 511 105 * 10,068 250
October 2005 2,375 187 141 0 134 0
December 2005 3,655 -15 402 33 5,762 203
March 2006 351 -11 0 0 890 5
May 2006 631 0 0 0 306 1
July 2006 752 0 138 22 100 0
October 2006 54 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 30 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 26 13 0 0 0 0
March 2008 13 13 0 0 0 0
Totals 39,252 311 5,586 331 * 81,598 -1,893

1 Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.

Open Futures Contracts are for November 24, 2004 because the Exchange
was closed on November 26, 2004 due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

* Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.

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
12/2/2004