Trading Activities | 4. Trading Activities: The Partnership was formed for the purpose of trading contracts in a variety of commodity interests, including derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments. The results of the Partnership’s trading activities are shown in the Statements of Income and Expenses. The Wedbush Customer Agreement, the ADM Customer Agreement and the HSBC Customer Agreement give the Partnership the legal right to net unrealized gains and losses on open futures and option contracts. The Partnership netted as applicable, for financial reporting purposes, the unrealized gains and losses on open futures and option contracts on the Statements of Financial Condition as the criteria under Accounting Standards Codification 210-20, “Balance Sheet,” Ongoing selling agent fees paid to Baird, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC were calculated as a percentage of the Partnership’s adjusted net asset value on the last day of each month and were affected by trading performance, subscriptions and redemptions. Trading and transaction fees are based on the number of trades executed by the Advisor for the Partnership. All trading, exchange, clearing, user, give-up, floor brokerage and National Futures Association (“NFA”) fees (collectively, the “clearing fees”) paid to Wedbush, ADM, HSBC and executing brokers, as applicable are borne by the Partnership. All of the commodity interests owned by the Partnership are held for trading purposes. The monthly average number of option contracts held during the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were 702 and 894, and the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were 396 and 1,410. The following tables present the gross and net information about investments eligible for offset in the Statements of Financial Condition at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively: Gross Amounts not Offset in the Statements of Financial Condition September 30, 2020 Gross Amounts Recognized Gross Offset Statements Financial Condition Amounts Presented Statements Financial Condition Financial Instruments Cash Collateral Received/ Pledged Net Amount Assets Options purchased $ 287,400 $ — $ 287,400 $ (252,600 ) $ — $ 34,800 Total assets 287,400 — 287,400 (252,600 ) — 34,800 Liabilities Written options $ (252,600 ) $ — $ (252,600 ) $ 252,600 $ — $ — Total liabilities (252,600 ) — (252,600 ) 252,600 — — Net fair value $ 34,800 Gross Amounts not Offset in the Statements of Financial Condition December 31, 2019 Gross Amounts Recognized Gross Offset Statements Financial Condition Amounts Presented Statements Financial Condition Financial Instruments Cash Collateral Received/ Pledged Net Amount Assets Options purchased $ 31,350 $ — $ 31,350 $ (46,200 ) $ — $ (14,850 ) Total assets 31,350 — 31,350 (46,200 ) — (14,850 ) Liabilities Written options $ (46,200 ) $ — $ (46,200 ) $ 46,200 $ — $ — Total liabilities (46,200 ) — (46,200 ) 46,200 — — Net fair value $ (14,850 ) The following tables indicate the gross fair values of derivative instruments of futures and option contracts as separate assets and liabilities as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively: September 30, 2020 Assets Options purchased Indices $ 287,400 Total options purchased $ 287,400 * Liabilities Written options premium received Indices $ (252,600 ) Total written options premium received $ (252,600 ) ** * This amount is in “Options purchased, at fair value” on the Statements of Financial Condition. ** This amount is in “Written options premium received, at fair value” on the Statements of Financial Condition. December 31, 2019 Assets Options purchased Indices $ 31,350 Total options purchased $ 31,350 * Liabilities Written options premium received Indices $ (46,200 ) Total written options premium received $ (46,200 ) ** * This amount is in “Options purchased, at fair value” on the Statements of Financial Condition. ** This amount is in “Written options premium received, at fair value” on the Statements of Financial Condition. The following table indicates the trading gains and losses, by market sector, on derivative instruments for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019: For the Three Months Ended September 30, For the Nine Months Ended September 30, Sector-Indices 2020 2019 2020 2019 Net realized gains (losses) on closed contracts $ 267,055 $ 557,639 $ 966,152 $ 1,604,928 Change in net unrealized gains (losses) on open contracts 29,900 (73,312 ) 41,825 (16,874 ) Total trading results $ 296,955 *** $ 484,327 *** $ 1,007,977 *** $ 1,588,054 *** *** This amount is included in “Total trading results” on the Statements of Income and Expenses. The following table rolls forward the transactions in Options Written for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020: Calls Puts Notional (000) Notional (000) Contracts USD Premiums Received Contracts USD Premiums Received Outstanding options, beginning of year — $ — $ — 528 $ 389,400 $ 46,200 Options written 9,192 7,575,322 1,604,615 30,194 22,054,538 10,418,039 Options exercised (54 ) (45,375 ) (21,000 ) (116 ) (99,400 ) (249,800 ) Options expired (7,726 ) (6,367,362 ) (1,207,190 ) (23,563 ) (17,041,630 ) (7,362,814 ) Options closed (1,196 ) (974,935 ) (322,425 ) (6,693 ) (5,024,098 ) (2,589,250 ) Outstanding options, end of period 216 $ 187,650 $ 54,000 350 $ 278,810 $ 262,375 |