Interactive Brokers Customer Accounts Up 1% vs January

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for February. Highlights for the month included: * 488 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 9% higher than prior year and 6% higher than prior month. * Ending customer equity of $34.7 billion, 23% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month. * Ending customer margin loan balances of $11.2 billion, 37% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month. * Ending customer credit balances of $22.4 billion, 19% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month. * 214.5 thousand customer accounts, 12% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month. * 524 annualized average cleared DARTs per customer account. * Average commission per cleared futures* customer order of $6.73 including exchange and regulatory fees, which we estimate to be approximately 60% of this total.