Big trading month for Interactive Brokers in August

• The wild ride in August had at least the trading business booming at Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ:IBKR -3.6%), which reports DARTs are 737K, up 13% from July and a full 49% from one year ago.
• Client equity and margin loans slipped from July though:
• Ending client equity of $62.9B fell 4% M/M, and rose 13% Y/Y.
• Ending client margin loan balances of $16.3B fell 10% M/M and 2% Y/Y.
• Ending client credit balances of $35.6B gained 3% M/M and 21% Y/Y.
• Average commission per cleared client order of $4.15.
• Source: Press Release