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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 2

"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of January 9, 2009 (in Contracts).



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
1/9/2009

Change From Previous Week

March 2009

6,605  

-1,221  

1,238  

-337  

71,583  

670  

May 2009

5,628  

159  

2,327  

-8  

20,808  

1,572  

July 2009

10,859  

215  

1,555  

124  

18,246  

147  

October 2009

1,022  

-3  

40  

0  

247  

5  

December 2009

6,919  

0  

1,372  

-6  

16,479  

671  

March 2010

1,856  

0  

176  

0  

221  

53  

May 2010

664  

37  

10  

0  

128  

19  

July 2010

1,352  

217  

310  

0  

671  

34  

October 2010

13  

0  

0  

0  

8  

0  

December 2010

164  

0  

0  

0  

987  

2  

March 2011

42  

0  

0  

0  

13  

0  

May 2011

50  

50  

5  

0  

0  

0  

July 2011

234  

234  

0  

0  

0  

0  

Totals

35,408  

-312  

7,033  

-227  

129,391  

3,173 

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

If you have any questions concerning this report, email marketreports@cftc.gov or call the Eastern Regional Office at 646-746-9777.

Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, January 15, 2009.

Last Updated: January 15, 2009