Cotton On-Call Report

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Cotton On-Call

Weekly Report  50

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/08/2006

(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
12/08/2006 		Change From Previous Week
December 2006 0   0   0   -73   112   -651  
March 2007 13,481   375   4,598   129   112,025   217  
May 2007 9,029   211   845   18   18,962   419  
July 2007 15,660   73   3,888   12   10,688   312  
October 2007 3,274   205   149   0   185   20  
December 2007 5,105   242   2,483   0   17,507   455  
March 2008 1,297   67   44   44   1,118   93  
May 2008 200   33   273   0   110   0  
July 2008 1,506   424   457   0   449   7  
October 2008 54   54   0   0   11   5  
December 2008 297   -250   0   0   0   0  
March 2009 98   0   0   0   0   0  
March 2010 13   0   0   0   0   0  
Totals 50,014   1,434   12,737   130   161,167   877  

1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 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
12/14/2006