Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics for April 2015 

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker and market maker, has issued a press release to announce its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for April.

Highlights for the month included:

• 630 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 9% higher than prior year and 1% lower than prior month.
• Ending client equity of $65.2 billion, 32% higher than prior year and 7% higher than prior month.
• Ending client margin loan balances of $18.7 billion, 27% higher than prior year and 8% higher than prior month.
• Ending client credit balances of $33.6 billion, 24% higher than prior year and 6% higher than prior month.
• 302 thousand client accounts, 18% higher than prior year and 2% higher than prior month.
• 488 annualized average cleared DARTs per client account.
• Average commission per cleared client order of $4.22 including exchange, clearing and regulatory fees. Key products:

Futures include options on futures. We estimate exchange, clearing and regulatory fees to be 56% of the futures commissions.

In April, clients’ total cost of executing and clearing U.S. Reg.-NMS stocks through IB was 0.2 basis points of trade money1, as measured against a daily VWAP2 benchmark (1.0 basis points for the rolling twelve months).

Note 1: Trade money is the total amount of money clients spent or received, including all commissions and fees.
Note 2: Consistent with the clients’ trading activity, the computed VWAP benchmark includes extended trading hours.

Source: Interactive Brokers – Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics for April 2015

 

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