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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS (Additional Information) (Details) | Dec. 06, 2007 USD ($) $ / shares shares | Dec. 04, 2007 | Sep. 30, 2016 Contracts $ / shares $ / Units | Dec. 31, 2015 $ / shares | Sep. 30, 2015 $ / shares | Dec. 31, 2014 $ / shares
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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fee paid by Authorized Purchasers for each order placed to create one or more Creation Baskets or to redeem one or more baskets |  |  |  | 350 |  |  |
Number of initially registered units on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |  |  | 11,000,000 |  |  |  |
Net asset value per share | $ / shares |  | $ 50.00 |  | $ 18.75 | $ 17 | $ 20.45 | $ 26.59
Number of shares issued | shares |  | 300,000 |  |  |  |  |
Value of shares issued | $ |  | $ 15,000,000 |  |  |  |  |
Number of registered shares |  |  |  | 111,000,000 |  |  |
Creation Baskets |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Number of shares per basket |  |  |  | 50,000 |  |  |
Open Futures Contracts, Long | United States |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Number of Contracts | Contracts | [1] |  |  | 2,425 |  |  |
[1] | Collateral amounted to $7,994,581 on open futures contracts.

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