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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS (Details)					1 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
		Jan. 04, 2018 $ / shares shares	Jan. 04, 2018 $ / shares shares	Apr. 18, 2007 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Apr. 30, 2007 shares	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($) contract $ / shares shares	Mar. 31, 2023 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2022 $ / shares	Jun. 30, 2022 $ / shares	Mar. 31, 2022 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2021 $ / shares
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Average daily percentage change in the price of the Benchmark Futures Contract considered						10.00%
Number of units per basket						100,000
Fee paid by authorized participants for each order placed to create one or more Creation Baskets or to redeem one or more baskets | $						$ 1,000
Number of initially registered units on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission					30,000,000
Net asset value per unit | $ / shares						$ 7.46	$ 7.01	$ 14.22	$ 18.45	$ 19.69	$ 12.39
Number of units issued				200,000
Value of unit issued | $				$ 10,001,000
Committee For Uniform Securities Identification Procedure Cusip			912318300
Stockholders equity reverse stock		0.25
Prior to Reverse Split
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Net asset value per unit | $ / shares		$ 5.69	$ 5.69	$ 50.00
Stockholders equity reverse stock		0.25
Capital units issued		97,466,476	97,466,476
Capital units outstanding		97,466,476	97,466,476
Following Reverse Split
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Net asset value per unit | $ / shares		$ 22.76	$ 22.76
Capital units issued		24,366,619	24,366,619
Capital units outstanding		24,366,619	24,366,619
Creation Baskets
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Number of units per basket						100,000
Open Commodity Futures Contracts, Long. | United States | NYMEX Natural Gas August 2023 contracts, expiring July 2023
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Number of Contracts | contract	[1]					27,307
[1] Collateral amounted to $250,962,623 on open commodity futures contracts.

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