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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Contracts and Agreements [Abstract] |
Brokerage Commissions | UNL also incurs commissions to brokers for the purchase and sale of Natural Gas Futures Contracts, Other Natural Gas-Related Investments or short-term obligations of the United States of two years or less (“Treasuries”).
|  | For the three months ended March 31, 2015 |  |  | For the three months ended March 31, 2014 |
Total commissions accrued to brokers |  | $ | 1,595 |  |  | $ | 2,070 |
Total commissions as an annualized percentage of average net assets |  |  | 0.04 | % |  |  | 0.03 | %
Commissions accrued as a result of rebalancing |  | $ | 969 |  |  | $ | 1,072 |
Percentage of commissions accrued as a result of rebalancing |  |  | 60.78 | % |  |  | 51.79 | %
Commissions accrued as a result of creation and redemption activity |  | $ | 626 |  |  | $ | 998 |
Percentage of commissions accrued as a result of creation and redemption activity |  |  | 39.22 | % |  |  | 48.21 | %

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