Interactive Brokers Group an automated global electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for April.

Highlights for the month included:

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• 411,000 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 2% higher than prior year and 1% lower than prior month.
• Ending customer equity of $29.2 billion, 12% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
• Ending customer margin loan balances of $8.7 billion, 17% lower than prior year and 4% higher than prior month.
• Ending customer credit balances of $18.8 billion, 2% higher than prior year and unchanged from prior month.
• 196 thousand customer accounts, 15% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
• 492 annualized average cleared DARTs per customer account.

Interactive Brokers recently started publishing its quarterly retail forex profitability metrics, though calculated differently than other ‘pure’ forex brokers.