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.
"On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of December 23, 2011 (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 | |
March 2012 |
18,480 |
-593 |
7,708 |
33 |
94,744 |
396 |
May 2012 |
6,893 |
1,693 |
355 |
-2 |
25,465 |
1,449 |
July 2012 |
13,708 |
2 |
6,061 |
0 |
21,304 |
787 |
October 2012 |
25 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
86 |
4 |
December 2012 |
3,379 |
101 |
5,596 |
45 |
8,259 |
79 |
March 2013 |
1,466 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
446 |
28 |
May 2013 |
185 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
496 |
6 |
July 2013 |
95 |
-52 |
55 |
0 |
81 |
0 |
October 2013 |
53 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
December 2013 |
92 |
0 |
3,733 |
0 |
250 |
0 |
March 2014 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
May 2014 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
33 |
0 |
Totals |
44,376 |
1,165 |
23,535 |
76 |
151,176 |
2,749 |
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, December 29, 2011