Spot Market Access
Click & Trade
Easy and flexible access to the spot market
With Click & Trade you act flexibly on the electricity spot market
You want to buy or sell electricity quantities on the day-ahead market in order to balance your balancing group with as little effort as possible and optimise your energy portfolio? You want a web portal to be able to use access to the spot market flexibly?
Our Click & Trade application takes you directly to EPEX Spot - without the need for your own exchange access.
What does Click & Trade offer you?
With the Internet-based platform Click & Trade, you can easily trade on the spot market. Without having to be accredited at EPEX, you adjust your balancing group by buying and selling electricity quantities via the auction day-ahead as well as intraday, accurate to the hour and quarter.
With the help of the portal, you directly place your demand as a buy or sell order, with and without limit, and can thus balance your daily schedule. Click & Trade is available as an application for desktop and mobile devices.
Convenient monthly payment
Clearing - the netting of profits and losses, the calculation of margins, as well as the physical and financial final settlement - takes place on the exchange every day. Vattenfall takes care of this for you, both financially and administratively. You simply pay your invoice to Vattenfall every month.
Who benefits from Click & Trade?
Click & Trade is ideal for all market participants who want easy access to the spot market. In particular, municipal utilities, regional suppliers, industrial companies, energy traders and generators can use it to easily optimise their electricity portfolio.
Services & advantages at a glance
- Exchange trading without own accreditation
- Access to the two auctions (day-ahead and intraday) of the EPEX Spot exchange
- Low administrative effort (no clearing, margining, IT)
- Flexible order options (market or limit order; up to four orders can be placed in parallel)
- Minimisation of your open positions
- Reduction of balancing energy risks and expansion of your procurement options
- Fast and efficient processes and reliable settlement
- High level of security through the use of a multi-level encryption and identification system.
- Easy data processing through import and export function (MS Excel)
- High level of user-friendliness (online help)
- Advance payment by Vattenfall - convenient monthly payment for you
- Transparency for your billing through order book
- Unlimited number of users
- Web application for desktop and mobile devices
Learn more about Click & Trade
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Companies such as municipal utilities, regional suppliers and industrial companies that want to participate in the day-ahead market are best advised to choose spot market access. With a market access, customers can actively participate in trading - without administrative effort, costs for exchange accreditations or complex IT installations. Click & Trade at Vattenfall offers access to the sports market. There, customers can buy or sell electricity volumes on the day-ahead market via a web portal. The web application for the EPEX Spot auction is available for desktop and mobile devices.
In order to trade on the exchange themselves - i.e. to have their own exchange access - companies require accreditation on an electricity exchange, for example EPEX Spot. Market access, on the other hand, offers access to different markets without incurring costs for exchange accreditations or requiring complex IT installations.
Click & Trade is the easy access to the spot market. The web application works on the computer as well as on mobile devices, it offers a high level of security, simple data processing and high user-friendliness. Users adjust their balancing group by procuring and selling electricity quantities on the day-ahead market as well as on the intraday market on an hourly and quarterly basis.
Spot market is the technical term for short-term energy trading. This includes intraday trading and day-ahead trading. Quarter-hourly and hourly products can be traded here, for example. On the spot market, producers and consumers optimise their portfolios for the next day. The exchange for spot trading is located in Paris and is called EPEX Spot.
Day ahead means one day in advance. On the day-ahead market, energy traders conclude transactions for the following day. They can sell and buy electricity for every quarter of an hour or hour of the following day.
As the spot market works at short notice, trading participants can forecast supply and demand quite well - and therefore also estimate prices better than in long-term trading. In addition to the predicted behaviour of electricity consumers and the availability of conventional power plants, the main factors influencing spot prices include the weather, as this determines production in renewable energy plants.
In exchange trading, participants place their bids on a platform. The exchange matches supply and demand and calculates the market prices for the following day.
