| The fair value as of the balance sheet date of firm holdings in mortgages, mortgage backed securities (investment instruments that represent ownership of an undivided interest in a group of mortgages, where principal and interest from the individual mortgages are used to pay investors' principal and interest on the mortgage backed security) and asset-backed securities that are primarily paid from the cash flows of a discrete pool of receivables or other financial assets (such as credit-card receivables), either fixed or revolving, that by their terms convert into cash within a finite time period. Includes both pledged (to counterparties as collateral for financing transactions) and unpledged holdings. | en-US | http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/documentation | http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/link |
| Financial Instruments, Owned, Mortgages, Mortgage-backed and Asset-backed Securities, at Fair Value | en-US | http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label | http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/link |