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Minimum amount to which the general partner will reduce the brokerage charge after offset of transaction costs and consulting fees.

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Represents expenses paid to the General Partner for selling agent compensation, consulting fees to the trading advisors and general partner fee expressed as a percentage of adjusted net assets.

No definition available.

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Percent of the notional amount of a derivative instrument used as the basis for fees paid to a counterparty.

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Expenses charged against the earnings during the period that are related to the general partner fee, selling agent compensation and consulting fees to the trading advisors etc.

No definition available.

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Amount of incentive fees charged (credited) against the earnings during the period payable to the trading advisors.

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Represents the maximum amount of net worth which is required to be maintained by the partner.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of the total capital contributions of all partners and all limited partnerships to which it is a general partner (including the Partnership), on the basis of which minimum net worth is to be determined.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of the units being offered for sale in the partnership, which is used to maintain the minimum net worth.

No definition available.

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Represents the value of minimum ownership of units required in the partnership.

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Represents the minimum ownership of units in the partnership as a percentage of all capital contributions of all partners to the partnership.

No definition available.

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Represents the reimbursement of operating expenses made by the entity which is initially paid by the related party and later on reimbursed by the entity expressed as a percentage of adjusted net assets.

No definition available.

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Represents the organization and offering reimbursement expressed as a percentage of adjusted net assets.

No definition available.

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Expenses recognized in the period that are related to organization and offering costs incurred in connection with the organization and the ongoing public offering of partnership interests.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of partnership's average month-end net assets during the year considered as a basis for determining operating expense reimbursements.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of general partner limited partnership interest in the entity which shall be regarded as a general partnership interest.

No definition available.

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This element represents a sum total of expenses not separately reflected on the income statement for the period.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 225
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.7-04.7)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879464&loc=d3e573970-122913

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.4,6)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26872669&loc=d3e20235-122688

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