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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS (Details)				1 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Jan. 23, 2024 $ / shares	Jan. 04, 2018 $ / shares shares	Apr. 18, 2007 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Apr. 30, 2007 shares	Sep. 30, 2024 USD ($) contract $ / shares shares	Jun. 30, 2024 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2023 $ / shares shares	Sep. 30, 2023 $ / shares	Jun. 30, 2023 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2022 $ / shares
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Number of successive valuation days					30 days
Average daily percentage change in the price of the Benchmark Futures Contract considered					10.00%
Reverse share split	0.25
Committee For Uniform Securities Identification Procedure Cusip		912318300
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			$ 50.00		$ 16.43	$ 17.39	$ 20.36	$ 27.24	$ 29.86	$ 56.90
Number of units issued			200,000
Value of unit issued | $			$ 10,001,000
Prior to Reverse Split
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Reverse share split		0.25
Capital units issued		97,466,476					191,284,588
Capital units outstanding		97,466,476					191,284,588
Net asset value per unit | $ / shares		$ 5.69					$ 5.09
Following Reverse Split
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Capital units issued		24,366,619					47,821,147
Capital units outstanding		24,366,619					47,821,147
Committee For Uniform Securities Identification Procedure Cusip	912318409
Net asset value per unit | $ / shares	$ 20.36	$ 22.76
NYMEX Natural Gas August 2023 contracts, expiring July 2023
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Number of Contracts | contract					23,099
Creation Baskets
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Number of units per basket					100,000
Redemption Baskets
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Number of units per basket					100,000

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section S99
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (SAB Topic 4.C)
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