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Additional Valuation Information
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]  
Additional Valuation Information

Note 6 - Additional Valuation Information

U.S. GAAP defines fair value as 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, under current market conditions. U.S. GAAP establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation methods, giving the highest priority to readily available unadjusted quoted prices in an active market for identical assets (Level 1) and the lowest priority to significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), generally when market prices are not readily available or are unreliable. Based on the valuation inputs, the securities or other investments are tiered into one of three levels. Changes in valuation methods or market conditions may result in transfers in or out of an investment’s assigned level:

Level 1: Prices are determined using quoted prices in an active market for identical assets.

Level 2: Prices are determined using other significant observable inputs. Observable inputs are inputs that other market participants may use in pricing a security. These may include quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, loss severities, default rates, discount rates, volatilities and others.

Level 3: Prices are determined using significant unobservable inputs. In situations where quoted prices or observable inputs are unavailable (for example, when there is little or no market activity for an investment at the end of the period), unobservable inputs may be used. Unobservable inputs reflect the Fund’s own assumptions about the factors market participants would use in determining fair value of the securities or instruments and would be based on the best available information.

The levels assigned to the securities valuations may not be an indication of the risk or liquidity associated with investing in those securities. Because of the inherent uncertainties of valuation, the values reflected in the financial statements may materially differ from the value received upon actual sale of those investments.

The following is a summary of the tiered valuation input levels as of March 31, 2025:

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Investments in Securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States Treasury Obligations

 

$

—

 

 

$

39,990,580

 

 

$

—

 

 

$

39,990,580

 

Exchange-Traded Fund

 

 

53,981,153

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

53,981,153

 

Money Market Mutual Fund

 

 

87,433,379

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

87,433,379

 

Total Investments in Securities

 

 

141,414,532

 

 

 

39,990,580

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

181,405,112

 

Other Investments - Assets(a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commodity Futures Contracts

 

 

11,041,333

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

11,041,333

 

Total Investments

 

$

152,455,865

 

 

$

39,990,580

 

 

$

—

 

 

$

192,446,445

 

(a)
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation).

The following is a summary of the tiered valuation input levels as of December 31, 2024:

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Investments in Securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States Treasury Obligations

 

$

—

 

 

$

53,470,939

 

 

$

—

 

 

$

53,470,939

 

Exchange-Traded Fund

 

 

54,014,400

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

54,014,400

 

Money Market Mutual Fund

 

 

100,993,456

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

100,993,456

 

Total Investments in Securities

 

 

155,007,856

 

 

 

53,470,939

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

208,478,795

 

Other Investments - Assets(a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commodity Futures Contracts

 

 

10,025,351

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

10,025,351

 

Total Investments

 

$

165,033,207

 

 

$

53,470,939

 

 

$

—

 

 

$

218,504,146

 

(a)
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation).