How Crowded Is This Niche?

X (Twitter)

• Discussion of European power / electricity trading as a prop or algo activity is limited.
• Most posts about “negative electricity prices” come from energy analysts, grid observers or renewable advocates — not from retail traders sharing P&L.
• Pure “I trade EPEX intraday” content is rare compared with crypto, FX or equity prop talk.
• Professional accounts (Montel, energy data providers) post regularly; retail trader accounts almost never do.

Reddit

• Very little dedicated discussion of proprietary electricity trading.
• Occasional threads about negative prices (Germany, Spain, Australia) appear in r/energy, r/solar, country-specific finance subs.
• One notable post (r/PropFirmTester) about building a paper prop tool for German ID15 power — shows interest exists but access is the bottleneck.
• No large active community of retail power traders comparable to crypto or futures communities.

Overall assessment

The niche is under-discussed and under-crowded at the retail / small-prop level.

Reasons:

1. High barrier to entry (market access, data, capital, knowledge of physical constraints).
2. Most public conversation stays at the “negative prices are interesting” level, not “here is my edge and P&L”.
3. The real money is concentrated in a relatively small number of specialised Danish/Nordic firms and large utility trading desks.

Opportunity signal: Low public saturation + proven large profits for those who cracked access and models = attractive for someone building agents and a systematic approach, provided the access problem is solved (prop partnership, data provider, or eventual direct membership).