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 11/28/2003

(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
11/26/2003 		Change From Previous Week
December 2003 5 -49 0 0 104 -278
March 2004 15,081 -1,338 9,785 297 55,899 -6,329
May 2004 8,478 -843 694 -41 13,206 -492
July 2004 16,237 -979 257 -28 5,694 339
October 2004 2,191 -92 797 23 345 88
December 2004 3,155 -69 1,554 0 3,981 86
March 2005 1,225 26 10 0 703 317
May 2005 1,153 -47 0 0 190 81
July 2005 1,829 -73 0 0 190 68
December 2005 1,275 5 * 0 0 0 0
March 2006 74 0 0 0 0 0
May 2006 112 0 0 0 0 0
July 2006 119 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 50,934 -3,459 * 13,097 251 80,312 -6,120

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

Open Futures Contracts are for November 26, 2003 because the Exchange
was closed on November 28, 2003 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 Vincent G. Varisano
Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.


Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
12/4/2003