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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS (Details)		1 Months Ended
		Apr. 10, 2006 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Sep. 30, 2019 $ / shares $ / item shares	Dec. 31, 2018 $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2018 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2017 $ / shares
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure
Fee paid by Authorized Purchasers for each order placed to create one or more Creation Baskets or to redeem one or more baskets | $ / item			1,000
Limited Partners' Capital Account, Units Authorized		17,000,000	3,227,000,000
Net asset value per unit | $ / shares		$ 67.39	$ 11.28	$ 9.59	$ 15.47	$ 12.08
Limited Partners' Capital Account, Units Issued		200,000
Value of units issued | $		$ 13,479,000
Redemption Baskets
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure
Number of units per basket			100,000
Creation Baskets
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure
Number of units per basket			100,000
Open Futures Contracts, Long | United States | NYMEX WTI Crude Oil Futures CL November 2019 contracts, expiring October 2019
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure
Number of Contracts	[1]		25,597
[1] Collateral amounted to $169,419,628 on open futures contracts.

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