(April 16 – 16:20 ET) – The level of client margin debt remained more or less unchanged from January to February, according to the Investment Dealers Association.

The IDA reports that outstanding debt in client margin accounts slipped a little to $10.37 billion at the end of February, down from $10.49 billion at the end of January.

Margin debt amounts have now returned to levels they held about a year ago. At the end of April last year, there was about $10.3 billion outstanding. That rose to a peak of $11.9 billion at the end of September. Margin debt has been trending downward ever since, although the change from January to February was tiny.