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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
Contractors [Abstract] |
Brokerage Commissions | BNO also incurs commissions to brokers for the purchase and sale of Futures Contracts, Other Crude Oil-Related Investments or short-term obligations of the United States of two years or less (“Treasuries”).
|  | For the three months ended March 31, 2017 |  |  | For the three months ended March 31, 2016 |
Total commissions accrued to brokers |  | $ | 29,924 |  |  | $ | 53,272 |
Total commissions as an annualized percentage of average net assets |  |  | 0.11 | % |  |  | 0.22 | %
Commissions accrued as a result of rebalancing |  | $ | 29,790 |  |  | $ | 51,031 |
Percentage of commissions accrued as a result of rebalancing |  |  | 99.55 | % |  |  | 95.79 | %
Commissions accrued as a result of creation and redemption activity |  | $ | 134 |  |  | $ | 2,241 |
Percentage of commissions accrued as a result of creation and redemption activity |  |  | 0.45 | % |  |  | 4.21 | %

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