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Condensed Schedule of Investments | Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) Contracts
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Ice Brent Crude Oil Futures Co December 2016 Contracts Expiring October 2016 [Member] |  |
Number of Contracts | Contracts | 2,340 |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] |  |
Market Value | $ 60,939,316 |
% of Partners' Capital | 51.90% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.34%, 10/06/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,999,860 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.56% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.35%, 10/13/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,999,655 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.56% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.34%, 10/20/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,999,641 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.39%, 10/27/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 4,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 3,998,866 |
% of Partners' Capital | 3.41% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.37%, 11/03/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,998,976 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.56% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.36%, 11/10/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,999,211 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.39%, 11/17/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,998,473 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.56% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.46%, 11/25/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,997,915 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.47%, 12/01/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,997,636 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.41%, 12/08/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,997,677 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.34%, 12/15/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,997,875 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.39%, 12/22/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,997,352 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.34%, 12/29/2016 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,997,515 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.34%, 1/05/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,998,187 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.43%, 1/19/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 1,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 998,701 |
% of Partners' Capital | 0.85% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.40%, 2/02/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,997,244 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.42%, 2/09/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,996,943 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.45%, 2/16/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,996,550 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.45%, 2/23/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,996,415 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.45%, 3/02/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,996,200 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.47%, 3/09/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,993,773 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.50%, 3/16/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,995,366 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.45%, 3/23/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 3,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 2,993,585 |
% of Partners' Capital | 2.55% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | US Treasury Securities [Member] | U.S. Treasury Bills,0.43%, 3/30/2017 |  |
Principal Amount | $ 2,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 1,995,700 |
% of Partners' Capital | 1.70% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | United States [Member] |  |
Market Value | $ 97,939,316 |
% of Partners' Capital | 83.41% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | United States [Member] | Money Market Funds [Member] |  |
Market Value | $ 37,000,000 |
% of Partners' Capital | 31.51% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | United States [Member] | Money Market Funds [Member] | Fidelity Institutional Money Market Funds - Government Portfolio [Member] |  |
Principal Amount | $ 16,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 16,000,000 |
% of Partners' Capital | 13.63% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | United States [Member] | Money Market Funds [Member] | Goldman Sachs Financial Square Funds - Government Fund - Class FS [Member] |  |
Principal Amount | $ 12,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 12,000,000 |
% of Partners' Capital | 10.22% |
Cash Equivalents [Member] | United States [Member] | Money Market Funds [Member] | Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds Government Portfolio [Member] |  |
Principal Amount | $ 9,000,000 |
Market Value | $ 9,000,000 |
% of Partners' Capital | 7.66% |
Open Futures Contracts - Long [Member] | United States [Member] | Ice Brent Crude Oil Futures Co December 2016 Contracts Expiring October 2016 [Member] |  |
Number of Contracts | 2,340 | [1]
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Open Commodity Contracts | $ 8,453,250 | [1]
% of Partners' Capital | 7.20% | [1]
[1] | Collateral amounted to $9,995,363 on open futures contracts.

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