Historical Cotton On-Call

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 42

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of 10/18/2013.

(In Contracts)

ISSN: 1945-3442



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
10/18/2013

Change From Previous Week

December 2013

14,023

-4,288

8,156

-112

117,159

-6,916

March 2014

20,458

285

2,700

110

64,736

2,865

May 2014

8,029

224

214

-27

10,857

1,776

July 2014

10,516

58

1,447

115

7,144

516

December 2014

2,456

76

6,299

130

3,557

144

March 2015

995

60

0

0

0

0

May 2015

92

0

0

0

0

0

July 2015

0

0

0

0

3

0

December 2015

0

0

1,166

0

5

0

Totals

56,569

-3,585

19,982

216

203,461

-1,615

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


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Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, November 1, 2013. Late release due to October 2013 government shutdown.