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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.

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Credits for investor fees earned by the General Partner on Partnership assets invested in funds on which they provide investment advisory services to an outside third party.

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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.

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The cost of financial instruments, excluding derivatives, owned by the entity and not pledged to counterparties as collateral.

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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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The amount of dividends received on an investment that were reinvested.

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The amount of investment funds redeemed.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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The total amount of other operating cost and expense items that are associated with the entity's normal revenue producing operation.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 220
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=115205541&loc=SL114868664-224227

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