Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  49

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 11/28/2008

(In Contracts)

Futures
Based
On:

Call Cotton Based New York

Open Futures Contracts
ICE Futures U.S.

Unfixed Call Sales Change From Previous Week Unfixed Call Purchases Change From Previous Week At Close
11/28/2008 		Change From Previous Week
December 2008 117   -919   0   -357 * 253   -5,951  
March 2009 7,886   212 * 1,729   237   80,485   -141  
May 2009 4,965   -7 * 1,963   19 * 14,528   911  
July 2009 9,453   107 * 1,074   -82   16,239   1,037  
October 2009 999   26   40   0   153   25  
December 2009 6,244   48 * 1,089   -18   13,590   -359  
March 2010 1,622   0   176   176   120   0  
May 2010 527   29   10   -176   84   -1  
July 2010 1,114   7   132   0   626   0  
October 2010 13   0   0   0   8   0  
December 2010 164   7   0   0   907   0  
March 2011 42   0   0   0   13   0  
May 2011 0   0   5   0   0   0  
Totals 33,146   -490 * 6,218   -201 * 127,006   -4,479  

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

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

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Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, December 4, 2008.
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