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 23
“On call” positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures reported by merchants in special account status1 as of June 4, 2010 (in Contracts).
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Futures |
Call Cotton Based New York | Open Futures Contracts ICE Futures U.S. |
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| Unfixed Call Sales | Change From Previous Week | Unfixed Call Purchases | Change From Previous Week | At Close 06/04/2010 |
Change From Previous Week | |
| July 2010 | 8,145 | -8,863 | 1,599 | 160 | 74,086 | -19,684 |
| October 2010 | 1,460 | -128 | 35 | 3 | 1,518 | -128 |
| December 2010 | 15,463 | 558 | 8,143 | 483 | 80,804 | 2,980 |
| March 2011 | 11,038 | 1,334 | 492 | 107 | 12,798 | 2,200 |
| May 2011 | 7,702 | 974 | 119 | 0 | 623 | -18 |
| July 2011 | 10,688 | 2,615 | 877 | 16 | 4,921 | 1,064 |
| October 2011 | 395 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| December 2011 | 5,768 | 102 | 1,620 | 0 | 1,422 | 50 |
| March 2012 | 1,145 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 59 | 0 |
| May 2012 | 645 | 0 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| July 2012 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| December 2012 | 235 | 0 | 3,015 | 0 | 121 | 0 |
| March 2013 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 63,182 | -3,254 | 16,000 | 769 | 176,365 | -13,536 |
1 Merchants with futures positions of 100 or more contracts in one future.
According to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Released after 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, June 10, 2010