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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
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, 2019 |  |  | For the three months ended March 31, 2018 |
Total commissions accrued to brokers |  | $ | 26,284 |  |  | $ | 23,732 |
Total commissions as annualized percentage of average total net assets |  |  | 0.12 | % |  |  | 0.10 | %
Commissions accrued as a result of rebalancing |  | $ | 25,667 |  |  | $ | 23,175 |
Percentage of commissions accrued as a result of rebalancing |  |  | 97.65 | % |  |  | 97.65 | %
Commissions accrued as a result of creation and redemption activity |  | $ | 617 |  |  | $ | 557 |
Percentage of commissions accrued as a result of creation and redemption activity |  |  | 2.35 | % |  |  | 2.35 | %

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