Cotton Exchange

Cotton Futures

NYBOT YTD Volume Grows 27 Percent Through May 2006

New York, NY, June 2, 2006 – The month of May ended with another sizeable increase in trading volume at the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®), the world’s leading “soft” commodity exchange, bringing the year-to-date (YTD) total to almost 20,000,000 combined futures and options contracts, a 27% increase over the first five months of the 2005 all-time record year.
Additionally, a Cotton No. 2sm (symbol CT) futures volume record was set on May 31, 2006, of 55,376 contracts, replacing the previous high 51,976 contracts established April 6, 1998. Cotton futures open interest also reached record levels on May 31, 2006, at 179,676 contracts.
Some other YTD category increases include: Total Ag Futures (up 21%), Currency Futures (up 43%), and Total Futures (up 22%); options increases are Ag Options (up 44%), Currency Options (up 6%), and Total Options (up 42%).

Individual product increases (YTD):
-Sugar No. 11sm (symbol SB) futures contract (up 32%) and Sugar No. 11 options (up 134%)
-U.S. Dollar Index® (symbol DX) futures (up 45%)
-Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (symbol OJ) futures (up 27%)
-Cocoa (symbol CC) futures (up 19%)
-Cotton No. 2sm (symbol CT) futures (up 9%)
-Coffee “C”® (symbol KC) futures (up 3%)
-Wood Pulp (symbol P) futures (up 45%)

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York’s original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products. For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, as well as currency and index futures and options.