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 12/24/2004

(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
12/23/2004 		Change From Previous Week
March 2005 8,009 -601 3,048 102 54,549 -859
May 2005 7,391 374 1,332 139 10,457 400
July 2005 13,769 -159 707 31 11,041 368
October 2005 2,628 20 141 0 274 0
December 2005 3,957 -17 404 20 6,715 206
March 2006 461 0 0 0 933 0
May 2006 872 0 0 0 412 0
July 2006 929 0 182 0 161 0
October 2006 92 0 0 0 0 0
December 2006 134 0 0 0 0 0
March 2007 26 0 0 0 0 0
March 2008 13 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 38,281 -383 5,814 292 84,542 115

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

Open Futures Contracts are for December 23, 2004 because the Exchange was closed
for the Holiday on December 24, 2004.

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
12/30/2004