Cotton On-Call Report

Weekly Report  52

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 12/23/2005

(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
12/23/2005 		Change From Previous Week
March 2006 14,366 -739 5,977 -235 79,625 264
May 2006 9,890 -451 1,256 62 15,612 1,507
July 2006 14,050 -1,077 7,246 44 4,560 397
October 2006 2,744 86 * 274 0 98 5
December 2006 4,879 -335 * 522 49 3,355 262
March 2007 632 81 0 0 28 0
May 2007 360 54 290 0 27 0
July 2007 646 175 4,404 0 29 0
December 2007 10 0 0 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
May 2008 0 0 248 0 0 0
March 2009 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 47,603 -2,206 * 20,217 -80 103,334 2,435

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.

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
12/29/2005