jpmorgan chase & co./2010 annual report 187 trading assets and liabilities trading assets include debt and equity instruments held for trading purposes that jpmorgan chase owns ( 201clong 201d positions ) , certain loans managed on a fair value basis and for which the firm has elected the fair value option , and physical commodities inventories that are generally accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value . trading liabilities include debt and equity instruments that the firm has sold to other parties but does not own ( 201cshort 201d positions ) . the firm is obligated to purchase instruments at a future date to cover the short positions . included in trading assets and trading liabilities are the reported receivables ( unrealized gains ) and payables ( unre- alized losses ) related to derivatives . trading assets and liabilities are carried at fair value on the consolidated balance sheets . bal- ances reflect the reduction of securities owned ( long positions ) by the amount of securities sold but not yet purchased ( short posi- tions ) when the long and short positions have identical committee on uniform security identification procedures ( 201ccusips 201d ) . trading assets and liabilities 2013average balances average trading assets and liabilities were as follows for the periods indicated. .
in 2010 what was the ratio of the trading assets 2013 derivative receivables to the derivative payables
( a ) balances reflect the reduction of securities owned ( long positions ) by the amount of securities sold , but not yet purchased ( short positions ) when the long and short positions have identical cusips . ( b ) primarily represent securities sold , not yet purchased . note 4 2013 fair value option the fair value option provides an option to elect fair value as an alternative measurement for selected financial assets , financial liabilities , unrecognized firm commitments , and written loan com- mitments not previously carried at fair value . elections elections were made by the firm to : 2022 mitigate income statement volatility caused by the differences in the measurement basis of elected instruments ( for example , cer- tain instruments elected were previously accounted for on an accrual basis ) while the associated risk management arrange- ments are accounted for on a fair value basis ; 2022 eliminate the complexities of applying certain accounting models ( e.g. , hedge accounting or bifurcation accounting for hybrid in- struments ) ; and 2022 better reflect those instruments that are managed on a fair value basis . elections include the following : 2022 loans purchased or originated as part of securitization ware- housing activity , subject to bifurcation accounting , or man- aged on a fair value basis . 2022 securities financing arrangements with an embedded deriva- tive and/or a maturity of greater than one year . 2022 owned beneficial interests in securitized financial assets that contain embedded credit derivatives , which would otherwise be required to be separately accounted for as a derivative in- strument . 2022 certain tax credits and other equity investments acquired as part of the washington mutual transaction . 2022 structured notes issued as part of ib 2019s client-driven activities . ( structured notes are financial instruments that contain em- bedded derivatives. ) 2022 long-term beneficial interests issued by ib 2019s consolidated securitization trusts where the underlying assets are carried at fair value. .