Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics for May 2015

Highlights for the month included:

617 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 19% higher than prior year and 2% lower than prior month.
Ending client equity of $66.7 billion, 31% higher than prior year and 2% higher than prior month.
Ending client margin loan balances of $19.3 billion, 30% higher than prior year and 3% higher than prior month.
Ending client credit balances of $33.8 billion, 22% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
306 thousand client accounts, 18% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
468 annualized average cleared DARTs per client account.
Average commission per cleared client order of $4.27 including exchange, clearing and regulatory fees. Key products:

Futures include options on futures. The company estimates exchange, clearing and regulatory fees to be 55% of the futures commissions.

In the interest of transparency, the company quantify its clients’ all-in cost of trade execution below.

In May, clients’ total cost of executing and clearing U.S. Reg.-NMS stocks through IB was 0.8 basis points of trade money1, as measured against a daily VWAP2 benchmark (1.0 basis points for the rolling twelve months).

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