| Dreyfus High Yield Strategies Fund operates as a nondiversified closed-end management investment company. It would invest at least 650f its total assets in income securities rated below investment grade. The funds investment portfolio constitutes aerospace & defense, airlines, automotive, trucks & parts, banking, building & construction, cable & media, chemicals, commercial services, consumer products, electric utilities, entertainment, food & beverages, health care, gaming & lodging, and others. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the fund's investment manager. As a regulated investment company, the fund makes distributions of taxable income sufficient to relieve it from substantially all federal income and excise taxes. The fund has principal offices in New York City, New York. |