Interactive Broker posts positive performance for April 2012

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.