On Thursday, the contract settled at 52.13 cents in the lowest close for the contract since late last month when it traded just under 52 cents.
March gained 0.63 cent to 54.99 cents and the rest rose 0.10 to 0.80 cent.
Mike Stevens, an analyst for brokers SFS Futures in Mandeville, Louisiana, said trade buying and speculative short-covering led futures back and the "market is beginning to look sold out for now."
Fundamentally, cotton market players said harvest pressure from the huge US cotton crop and doubts over the strength of global cotton demand will likely be a feature in the market.
The trade is also monitoring the jockeying among trading powers ahead of the World Trade Organisation talks on farm trade in Hong Kong in less than two months.
Cotton futures popped higher at the start but immediately came under renewed fund sales, which touched off automatic sell orders below 52 cents, basis December, dealers said.
At the lows, Stevens said sufficient trade buying stopped a further decline in value and speculators who were thinking of pushing the market down covered their positions instead.
Traders said that despite the brief probe below 52 cents in the December contract, the market has quickly recovered and re-established its trading band running from 52 to 55 cents.
Brokers Flanagan Trading Corp sees resistance in the December cotton contract at 53.05 and 53.80 cents, with support at 52.50 and 52.05 cents.
Floor dealers said estimated final volume amounted to 23,000 lots, off from Thursday's tally of 26,742 lots. Open interest sank 4,216 lots to 118,784 contracts as of October 27.