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Document Type dei_DocumentType 485BPOS
Document Period End Date dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate Sep. 30, 2014
Registrant Name dei_EntityRegistrantName VIRTUS OPPORTUNITIES TRUST
Central Index Key dei_EntityCentralIndexKey 0001005020
Amendment Flag dei_AmendmentFlag false
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol VOT
Document Creation Date dei_DocumentCreationDate Nov. 13, 2014
Document Effective Date dei_DocumentEffectiveDate Nov. 13, 2014
Prospectus Date rr_ProspectusDate Nov. 13, 2014
Virtus International Wealth Masters Fund
  
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Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading
Virtus International Wealth Masters Fund
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading
Investment Objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock
The fund has an investment objective of capital appreciation.
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading
Fees and Expenses
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock
The tables below illustrate the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Virtus Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial advisor and under “Sales Charges” on page [xx] of the fund’s prospectus and “Alternative Purchase Arrangements” on page [xx] of the fund’s statement of additional information.
Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination
January 31, 2016
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading
Portfolio Turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. As of the date of this prospectus, the fund has not commenced operations; therefore, portfolio turnover information for the fund is not shown here.
Expenses Deferred Charges [Text Block] rr_ExpensesDeferredChargesTextBlock
The deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C Shares redeemed during the first year only.
Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text] rr_ExpenseBreakpointDiscounts
You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Virtus Mutual Funds.
Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount] rr_ExpenseBreakpointMinimumInvestmentRequiredAmount $ 50,000
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading
Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the expense reimbursement arrangement remains in place only for the period indicated. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading
Investments, Risks and Performance
Principal Investment Strategies
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock
The fund seeks to track the performance of the Horizon Kinetics International Wealth Index (Ticker: INWTR), a public index maintained by Horizon Kinetics LLC, the parent company of the fund’s subadviser, and published by International Securities Exchange, LLC. The index is composed of non-U.S., exchange-listed companies managed by executives who have accumulated a substantial amount of their personal wealth through the companies that they manage. The issuers have market capitalizations, at time of addition to the index, in excess of $200 million. The fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The manner in which the index is constructed is likely to result in the fund’s assets generally being focused in one or more market sectors. For example, companies eligible for inclusion in the index based upon the first requirement of having an individual with significant wealth in a control position, are often companies in the consumer discretionary sector; therefore, it would not be unusual for the fund’s assets to be similarly focused in the consumer discretionary sector.
The fund intends to diversify its investments among countries and normally to have represented in the portfolio business activities of a number of different countries. In determining “location” of an issuer, the subadviser primarily relies on the country where the issuer is incorporated. However, the country of risk is ultimately determined based on analysis of the following criteria: actual building address (domicile), primary exchange on which the security is traded and country in which the greatest percentage of company revenue is generated. This evaluation is conducted so as to determine that the issuer’s assets are exposed to the economic fortunes and risks of the designated country.
Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading
Principal Risks
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock
The fund may not achieve its objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment program. The value of the fund’s investments that supports your share value may decrease. If between the time you purchase shares and the time you sell shares the value of the fund’s investments decreases, you will lose money. Investment values can decrease for a number of reasons. Conditions affecting the overall economy, specific industries or companies in which the fund invests can be worse than expected, and investments may fail to perform as the subadviser expects. As a result, the value of your shares may decrease. Purchase and redemption activities by fund shareholders may impact the management of the fund and its ability to achieve its investment objective(s). The redemption by one or more large shareholders or groups of shareholders of their holdings in the fund could have an adverse impact on the remaining shareholders in the fund including by accelerating the realization of capital gains and increasing the fund's transaction costs. The principal risks of investing in the fund are:
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  • Correlation to Index Risk.  The risk that the performance of the fund and its index may vary somewhat due to factors such as fund flows, transaction costs, whether the fund obtains every security in its index, complexities of investing in foreign markets and timing differences associated with additions to and deletions from its index.
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  • Equity Securities Risk.  The risk that events negatively affecting issuers, industries or financial markets in which the fund invests, will impact the value of the stocks held by the fund and thus, the value of the fund’s shares over short or extended periods. Investments in a particular style or in small or medium-sized companies may enhance that risk.
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  • Foreign Investing Risk.  The risk that the prices of foreign securities in the fund’s portfolio will be more volatile than those of domestic securities, or will be negatively affected by currency fluctuations or economic, political or other developments.
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  • Market Volatility Risk.  The risk that the value of the securities in which the fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies and/or general economic conditions. Price changes may be temporary or may last for extended periods.
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  • Sector Focused Investing Risk.  The risk that events negatively affecting a particular market sector in which the fund focuses its investments will cause the value of the fund’s shares to decrease, perhaps significantly. To the extent the fund focuses its assets in a particular market sector, the fund is more vulnerable to conditions that negatively affect such market sector as compared to a fund that does not focus holdings in such securities.
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  • Small and Medium Market Capitalization Risk.  The risk that the fund’s investments in small and medium market capitalization companies will increase the volatility and risk of loss to the fund, as compared with investments in larger, more established companies.
Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney
If between the time you purchase shares and the time you sell shares the value of the fund’s investments decreases, you will lose money.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading
Performance Information
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock
The fund has not had a full calendar year of operations; therefore, performance information is not shown here.
Updated performance information is available at virtus.com or by calling 800-243-1574.
Performance One Year or Less [Text] rr_PerformanceOneYearOrLess
The fund has not had a full calendar year of operations; therefore, performance information is not shown here.
Performance Availability Phone [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityPhone
800-243-1574
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress
virtus.com
Virtus International Wealth Masters Fund | Class A
  
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Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol VIWAX
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice 5.75%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.90%
Distribution and Shareholder Servicing (12b-1) fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Other Expenses? rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.70% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.85%
Less: Expense Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.30%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Expense Reimbursement rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.55%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 724
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,096
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 724
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 1,096
Virtus International Wealth Masters Fund | Class C
  
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Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol VIWCX
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther 1.00% [3]
Management Fees rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.90%
Distribution and Shareholder Servicing (12b-1) fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 1.00%
Other Expenses? rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.70% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 2.60%
Less: Expense Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.30%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Expense Reimbursement rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 2.30%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 333
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 780
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 233
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 780
Virtus International Wealth Masters Fund | Class I
  
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Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol VWIIX
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Management Fees rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.90%
Distribution and Shareholder Servicing (12b-1) fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Other Expenses? rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.70% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.60%
Less: Expense Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.30%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Expense Reimbursement rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.30%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 132
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 476
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 132
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 $ 476
[1] Estimated for current fiscal year, as annualized.
[2] The fund's investment adviser has contractually agreed to limit the fund's total operating expenses (excluding dividend and interest expenses, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and acquired fund fees and expenses) so that such expenses do not exceed 1.55% for Class A Shares, 2.30% for Class C Shares and 1.30% for Class I Shares through January 31, 2016. Following the contractual period, the adviser may discontinue these expense reimbursement arrangements at any time. Under certain conditions, the adviser may recapture operating expenses reimbursed under these arrangements for a period of three years following the fiscal year in which such reimbursement occurred.
[3] The deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C Shares redeemed during the first year only.