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Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics For August 2009
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic market maker and broker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for August. Highlights for the month included:
- 340 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades(1) (DARTs) in August 2009, up 5% from prior month.
- 625 annualized average cleared DARTs per customer account.
- 125.4 thousand customer accounts, 18% higher than August 2008.
- Ending customer equity of $12.6 billion, 22% higher than August 2008.
- Ending customer credit balances of $9.6 billion and customer margin balances of $2.6 billion.
More information, including historical results for each of the above metrics, can be found on the investor relations page of the Company’s corporate web site, www.interactivebrokers.com/ir.
About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.:
Interactive Brokers Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an automated
global electronic market maker and broker specializing in routing orders
and executing and processing trades in securities, futures and foreign
exchange
instruments on more than 80 electronic exchanges and trading venues around
the world. As a market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces
and, as a broker, we provide professional traders and investors with electronic
access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and mutual funds from a
single
IB Universal AccountSM. Employing proprietary software on a global communications
network, Interactive Brokers Group continuously integrates its software with
a growing number of exchanges and trading venues into one automatically functioning,
computerized platform that requires minimal human intervention.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
The foregoing information contains certain forward-looking statements that
reflect the company's current views with respect to certain current and
future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements
are and
will be, as the case may be, subject to many risks, uncertainties and
factors relating to the company's operations and business environment which
may
cause the company's actual results to be materially different from any
future results,
expressed or implied, in these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking
statements in this release are based upon information available to the
company on the date of this release. The company does not undertake to
publicly update
or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future
changes make it clear that any statements expressed or implied therein
will not
be realized. Additional information on risk factors that could potentially
affect
the company's financial results may be found in the company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. Media: Andrew Wilkinson, 203-913-1369 or Investors: Deborah Liston, 203-618-4070.
- 1Trades = executed customer orders

