Significant Accounting Policies | 3. Significant Accounting Policies a. Basis of Presentation The Fund has determined its status as an investment company and as such, follows the accounting and reporting requirements of ASC 946, Financial Services – Investment Companies . b. Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements and accompanying notes in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in members’ capital from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. c. Statements of Cash Flows The Fund is not required to provide a Statements of Cash Flows in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) 230, Statement of Cash Flows . d. Fair Value Measurements In May 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-07, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) , Disclosures for Investments in Certain Entities That Calculate Net Asset Value per Share (or Its Equivalent) . ASU 2015-07 removes the requirement to categorize within the fair value hierarchy all investments for which fair value is measured using the net asset value per share practical expedient. Accordingly, the Fund’s investment in the Master Fund has not been categorized in the fair value hierarchy. In August 2018, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) – Disclosure Framework—Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement (“ASU 2018-13”) which introduces new fair value disclosure requirements as well as eliminates and modifies certain existing fair value disclosure requirements. ASU 2018-13 would be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those fiscal years; however, the Fund early adopted ASU 2018-13 effective December 31, 2018. The impact of the Fund’s adoption was limited to changes in the Fund’s financial statement disclosures regarding fair value, primarily those disclosures related to transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy. e. Investment in Master Fund The Fund records its investment in the Master Fund at fair value and is represented by the Fund’s proportionate interest in the members’ capital of the Master Fund at December 31, 2019 and 2018. Valuation of securities held by the Master Fund is discussed in the notes to the Master Fund’s financial statements. The Fund records its pro rata share of the Master Fund’s income, expenses and realized and unrealized gains and losses. The performance of the Fund is directly attributable to the performance of the Master Fund. The Fund records its subscription and redemption of the capital account related to its investment in the Master Fund on the transaction date. The Master Fund will adjust the capital account of the Fund. Brokerage, clearing and transaction fees are incurred by the Master Fund and are reflected in the pro rata allocation received by the Fund from the Master Fund. f. Subscriptions Received in Advance Subscriptions received in advance represent the amounts paid by the non-managing members for a percentage ownership into the Fund which have not yet been added as members’ capital as of December 31, 2019 and 2018. The amount paid is held as cash in the Fund’s escrow account and represents the majority of the cash on the Statements of Financial Condition. g. Redemptions Payable Pursuant to ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity , capital withdrawals effective December 31, 2019 and 2018 have been reflected as redemptions payable in the Statements of Financial Condition. h. Income Taxes The Fund is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and the Fund will not pay U.S. federal income tax. As a result, no income tax liability or expense has been recorded in the financial statements. Each member will be subject to taxation on its share of the Fund’s ordinary income, capital gains and losses. U.S. GAAP provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements and requires the evaluation of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Master Fund’s financial statements to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions with respect to tax at the Master Fund level not deemed to meet the “more-likely-than-not” threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. Management has analyzed the Master Fund’s tax positions for the open tax period and has concluded that no provision is required in the Master Fund’s financial statements. The Master Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense in the Statements of Operations. For the years ended December 31,2019, 2018 and 2017, the Master Fund did not incur any interest or penalties. |
Significant Accounting Policies | 3. Significant Accounting Policies a. Basis of Presentation The Master Fund has determined its status as an investment company and as such, follows the accounting and reporting requirements of ASC 946, Financial Services – Investment Companies . b. Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements and accompanying notes in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in member’s capital from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. c. Statement of Cash Flows The Master Fund is not required to provide a Statement of Cash Flows in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) 230, Statement of Cash Flows . d. Fair Value Measurements FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 820, “ Fair Value Measurements ” ("ASC 820"), defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and establishes a fair value hierarchy which prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques. Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. A fair value measurement assumes that the transaction to sell the asset or transfer the liability occurs in the principal market for the asset or liability or, in the absence of a principal market, the most advantageous market for the asset or liability. Valuation techniques, as specified by ASC 820, are used to measure fair value. All financial instruments at fair value are categorized into one of three fair value hierarchy levels, based upon the lowest level input that is significant to the financial instrument's fair value measurement in its entirety: Level 1 – quoted market prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 – valuation techniques for which all significant inputs are market observable, either directly or indirectly. Level 3 – valuation techniques which include significant inputs that are not based on observable market data. In August 2018, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) – Disclosure Framework—Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement (“ASU 2018-13”) which introduces new fair value disclosure requirements as well as eliminates and modifies certain existing fair value disclosure requirements. ASU 2018-13 would be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those fiscal years; however, the Fund early adopted ASU 2018-13 effective December 31, 2018. The impact of the Fund’s adoption was limited to changes in the Fund’s financial statement disclosures regarding fair value, primarily those disclosures related to transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy. U.S. GAAP provides guidance in determining whether there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for an asset or liability when compared with normal market activity for such asset or liability (or similar assets or liabilities). U.S. GAAP also provides guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction with regards to such an asset or liability is not orderly. In its consideration, the Master Fund must consider inputs and valuation techniques used for each class of assets and liabilities. Judgment is used to determine the appropriate classes of assets and liabilities for which disclosures about fair value measurements are provided. Fair value measurement disclosure for each class of assets and liabilities requires greater disaggregation than the Master Fund’s line items in the Statements of Financial Condition. The Master Fund determines the appropriate classes for those disclosures on the basis of the nature and risks of the assets and liabilities and their classification in the fair value hierarchy (i.e., Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3). For assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis during the year, the Master Fund provides quantitative disclosures about the fair value measurements separately for each class of assets and liabilities, as well as a reconciliation of beginning and ending balances of Level 3 assets and liabilities broken down by class. The Master Fund considers prices for exchange-traded commodity futures, U.S. Treasuries, forwards and options contracts to be based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1). The values of non exchange-traded forwards, swaps and certain options contracts for which market quotations are not readily available are priced by broker-dealers who derive fair values for those assets from observable inputs (Level 2) and for those contracts that are priced using unobservable inputs through the application of management’s assumptions and internal valuation pricing models (Level 3). As of and for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, the Master Fund did not hold any derivative instruments for which market quotations are not readily available and which are priced by broker-dealers who derive fair values for these assets from observable inputs (Level 2) or that are priced at fair value using unobservable inputs through the application of management’s assumptions and internal valuation pricing models (Level 3). The gross presentation of the fair value of the Master Fund’s derivatives by instrument type is shown in Note 5, “Trading Activities”. At December 31, 2019 and 2018, financial instruments recorded at fair value, consisted of the following: ASSET TABLE Total Fair Value at Description December 31, 2019 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Investment in Securities $ 84,927,113 $ 84,927,113 $ — $ — Futures Contracts 3,446,749 3,446,749 — — Total Assets $ 88,373,862 $ 88,373,862 $ — $ — LIABILITIES TABLE Total Fair Value at Description December 31, 2019 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Futures Contracts $ 5,117,104 $ 5,117,104 $ — $ — Total Liabilities $ 5,117,104 $ 5,117,104 $ — $ — Net Assets and Liabilities $ 83,256,758 $ 83,256,758 $ — $ — ASSET TABLE Total Fair Value at Description December 31, 2018 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Futures Contracts $ 5,914,315 $ 5,914,315 $ — $ — Total Assets $ 5,914,315 $ 5,914,315 $ — $ — LIABILITIES TABLE Total Fair Value at Description December 31, 2018 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Futures Contracts $ 9,900,245 $ 9,900,245 $ — $ — Total Liabilities $ 9,900,245 $ 9,900,245 $ — $ — Net Assets and Liabilities $ (3,985,930) $ (3,985,930) $ — $ — The Master Fund trades futures contracts. A futures contract is a firm commitment to buy or sell a specified quantity of investments, currency or a standardized amount of a derivable grade commodity, at a specified price on a specified future date, unless the contract is closed before the delivery date or if the delivery quantity is something where physical delivery cannot occur (such as the S&P 500 Index), whereby such contract is settled in cash. Payments (“variation margin”) may be made or received by the Master Fund each business day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the underlying contracts, and are recorded as unrealized gains or losses by the Master Fund. When the contract is closed, the Master Fund records a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed. Transactions in futures contracts require participants to make both initial margin deposits of cash or other assets and variation margin deposits, through the futures broker, directly with the exchange on which the contracts are traded. Net realized gains (losses) and changes in net unrealized gains (losses) on futures contracts are included in the Statements of Operations. The fair value of the Master Fund’s assets and liabilities which qualify as financial instruments approximates the carrying amounts presented in the Statements of Financial Condition. e. Redemptions Payable Pursuant to ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity , capital withdrawals effective December 31, 2019 and 2018 have been reflected as redemptions payable in the Statements of Financial Condition. f. Cash Cash represents cash held on deposit and in segregated accounts with UBS. The Master Fund considers all cash and short term deposits with original maturity of three months or less to be cash or cash equivalents. There are no cash equivalents held as at December 31, 2019 and 2018. Cash includes the initial cash margin of $12,857,135 and $15,356,440 held by UBS against open derivative positions at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.Cash includes foreign cash balances equal to $3,107,768 (cost $3,061,847) and $1,246,408 (cost $1,253,345) at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. g. Foreign Currency Transactions The Master Fund does not isolate that portion of the results of operations resulting from changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from the fluctuations arising from changes in the market prices of securities held or derivatives traded. Such fluctuations are included within the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on futures and foreign currency. h. Income and Expenses Recognition All of the income and expenses and realized and unrealized gains and losses on trading of commodity interests are determined on each valuation day, the close of business on the last day of each month, and allocated to the Feeder at the time of such determination. The Master Fund earns interest income on 100% of the average daily equity in the Master Fund’s brokerage account at a rate equal to the monthly average 30-day U.S. Treasury bill rate. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. i. Master Fund Expenses The Master Fund bears all expenses incurred in its business, including, but not limited to, the following: all costs and expenses related to portfolio transactions and positions for the Master Fund’s account; legal fees; accounting and auditing fees; custodial fees; costs of computing the Master Fund’s member’s capital value, including valuation services provided by third parties; all costs with respect to communications to investors; and other types of expenses approved by the member. j. Member’s Capital Value Member’s capital of the Master Fund is calculated by the Administrator as of the close of business at the end of any fiscal period in accordance with the valuation principles set forth below or as may be determined from time to time pursuant to policies established by the member. Profits and losses from trading in the Master Fund, net of transaction fees, will be allocated pro rata to the capital account of the Feeder based on the member’s capital in the capital account compared to the aggregate member’s capital of all other capital accounts in the Master Fund. The Master Fund’s expenses will be charged pro rata to the capital accounts of the Feeder. k. Income Taxes The Master Fund is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and will not pay U.S. federal income tax. As a result, no income tax liability or expense has been recorded in the financial statements. Each member will be subject to taxation on its share of the Master Fund’s ordinary income, capital gains and losses. U.S. GAAP provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements and requires the evaluation of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Master Fund’s financial statements to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than not” to be sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions with respect to tax at the Master Fund level not deemed to meet the “more-likely-than not” threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. Management has analyzed the Master Fund’s tax positions for the open tax period and has concluded that no provision is required in the Master Fund’s financial statements. The Master Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense in the Statements of Operations. For the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, the Master Fund did not incur any interest or penalties. |