The Cotton On-Call Report shows the quantity of call cotton bought or sold on which the price has not been fixed, together with the respective futures on which the purchase or sale is based. Call cotton refers to physical cotton bought or sold, or contracted for purchase or sale at a price to be fixed later based upon a specified delivery month future’s price.
Weekly Report 20
"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of May 18, 2012 (in Contracts).
ISSN: 1945-3442
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Call Cotton Based New York |
Open Futures Contracts | ||||
Unfixed Call Sales |
Change From Previous Week |
Unfixed Call Purchases |
Change From Previous Week |
At Close |
Change From Previous Week | |
July 2012 |
14,457 |
-955 * |
6,192 |
-138 |
101,065 |
-1,212 |
October 2012 |
46 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
154 |
2 |
December 2012 |
10,820 |
31 |
15,386 |
433 |
74,953 |
-114 |
March 2013 |
6,268 |
234 |
19 |
0 |
6,386 |
805 |
May 2013 |
2,606 |
-8 |
18 |
0 |
2,395 |
347 |
July 2013 |
3,918 |
-2 |
3,311 |
51 |
3,146 |
37 |
October 2013 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
December 2013 |
1,892 |
14 |
3,171 |
-29 |
776 |
85 |
March 2014 |
219 |
0 |
1,000 |
0 |
13 |
2 |
May 2014 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
38 |
0 |
December 2014 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
Totals |
40,226 |
-686 * |
29,097 |
317 |
188,931 |
-48 |
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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Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, May 24, 2012