IBKR US servers down 2 mins before close

misterkel · Mar 6, 2021

I complained about this thing recently and somebody called Dice something or other basically attacked me for pointing it out.

zdreg · Mar 6, 2021

misterkel said:
I complained about this thing recently and somebody called Dice something or other basically attacked me for pointing it out.
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What people cannot do in person they will do on the internet.

DiceAreCast · Mar 6, 2021

How did your IB connectivity fare?

zdreg said:
What people cannot do in person they will do on the internet.
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zdreg · Mar 6, 2021

DiceAreCast said:
How did your IB connectivity fare?
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no problem.

lindq · Mar 6, 2021

ZBZB said:
76% more accounts than last year, all logged on at the same time.

Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics and Other Financial Information for February 2021, includes Reg.-NMS Execution Statistics
GREENWICH, CT, March 1, 2021 — Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for February.
Brokerage highlights for the month included:
• 3,695 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)1, 175% higher than prior year and 12% higher than prior month.
• Ending client equity of $329.9 billion, 94% higher than prior year and 5% higher than prior month.
• Ending client margin loan balances of $42.1 billion, 46% higher than prior year and 3% higher than prior month.
• Ending client credit balances of $85.0 billion, including $2.8 billion in insured bank deposit sweeps2, 43% higher
than prior year and 3% higher than prior month.
• 1,265 thousand client accounts, 76% higher than prior year and 6% higher than prior month.
• 679 annualized average cleared DARTs1 per client account.
• Average commission per cleared Commissionable Order3 of $2.30 including exchange, clearing and regulatory
fees. Key products:
Futures include options on futures. We estimate exchange, clearing and regulatory fees to be 56% of the futures commissions.
Other financial information for Interactive Brokers Group:
• GLOBAL4: The value of the GLOBAL, reported in U.S. dollars, decreased by 0.14% in February.
In the interest of transparency, we quantify our IBKR PRO clients’ all-in cost of trade execution below.
• In February, IBKR PRO clients’ total cost of executing and clearing U.S. Reg.-NMS stocks through IB was about 4.6 basis points of trade money5, as measured against a daily VWAP6 benchmark (2.4 basis points net cost for the
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The shocker here, at least to me, is that over 10% of client equity is in margin loans. Yikes!

Cdntrader · Mar 6, 2021

lindq said:
The shocker here, at least to me, is that over 10% of client equity is in margin loans. Yikes!
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Why does that concern you?

lindq · Mar 7, 2021

Not concerned. Just surprised.