One algorithm to price
Europe's energy.

European power markets are full of mispricings waiting to be found — renewable intermittency, cross-border arbitrage, intraday volatility. Help us build the meta-forecast that exploits all of them. Build and backtest free. When you're ready, €199 unlocks a 28-day evaluation — pass it and trade a funded €10,000 account, keeping 70% of profits.

Order Signal from noise Chaos
Free Sandbox access
€199 28-day evaluation
€10,000 Funded account
70% Profit share
5+ yrs Historical data
Monthly Payouts

How We Keep It Real

€199 one-time. That's the only fee.

Your €199 unlocks a 28-day evaluation on a €10,000 simulated account. Pass and you're funded — no recurring fees, no data charges. The fee funds trader capital, data licenses, and infrastructure, and keeps the evaluation serious.

We never ask you to deposit trading capital

You never put up trading capital. Your algorithm trades a simulated €10,000 account against real market data — backed by Voltra's own reserves. Your only financial exposure is the €199 evaluation fee.

Registered company in Denmark

Voltra Trading is a registered technology and education platform in Copenhagen, Denmark. Real founders. Real legal entity. Look us up.

We never see your code

Your algorithm runs on your own machine, never on our servers. You submit only the trading signals it produces — direction, size, market, price. Your code, your edge, your IP never leave your laptop. We literally cannot read it.

From idea to funded account
in four steps

No capital required. No experience required. No gatekeeping. Just prove your algorithm works.

01

Get the Data

Over five years of European power — prices, renewables, flows, weather, fuel, carbon. 123 raw features, hourly resolution, 2021-present. Every signal intact.

Free access
02

Build and Test Your Model

Backtest on historic data, forward-test against live European power in the free sandbox. Iterate until you have real edge.

Free sandbox
03

Enter the Tournament

28 days of live European prices, scored on five criteria to qualify. Top-ranked traders each challenge earn funded accounts.

€199 one-time
04

Funded Account

Trade €10,000, scaling up to €250,000 as your track record holds. Keep 70% of profits, paid to your bank at month end.

Profit paid monthly

Plumbing in minutes.
Alpha is yours to find.

No exchange membership. No trading capital required. No regulatory setup. Just Python and the time to build something that works.

Fork the Template

Start from our official strategy template. Everything you need is already wired up.

Fork on GitHub →

Install the SDK

One command. Works with any Python environment — local, Colab, cloud.

pip install voltra-api

Join the Community

Ask questions, share strategies, and see what others are building.

Join Discord →

Built for algo traders
who have an idea but not the capital

Start completely free

Sign up with no credit card. Explore years of real market data, build and backtest your algorithm — all free, forever. Pay only when you choose to enter evaluation.

Real energy markets

Not forex. Not crypto. Real European power markets with genuine structural inefficiencies — day-ahead vs intraday spreads, cross-border arbitrage, renewable intermittency.

Trade from anywhere

You provide the algorithm. We provide the infrastructure, data, and funded account. No exchange memberships, no capital, no desk required.

Scale with your track record

Funded accounts start at €10,000 and scale as your rolling metrics hold up. Clean Sharpe, clean drawdown, sustained alpha — up to €250,000.

Your strategy is yours

We never see your code. Your algorithm runs on your own machine — you submit only the signals it generates, never the logic behind them.

European power,
Germany first

We launch where the hourly day-ahead auction is deepest and the renewable forecast-error signal is richest. Additional zones open as we grow.

European Power — Germany Live
Germany — Live
Reference zones
Day-Ahead Live

Hourly DA auction, simulated fills at the cleared price. One prediction per hour, 24 hours per day. This is the tournament you submit to.

Intraday Coming soon

Continuous intraday products and 15-minute granularity. Shorter horizons, faster feedback, separate leaderboard.

Asset Management Coming soon

Deploy a funded strategy as a live-dispatch model for battery and flexible-load operators. Track records on the leaderboard feed into allocation.

α Where the alpha lives

Power markets misprice the spread between the T-1 day-ahead forecast and what actually clears. Recurring edge comes from wind and solar forecast error, load forecast error, cross-border flow shifts, and gas and carbon prices lagging into power. Your model doesn't need to know which driver it's capturing — it just needs to find them in the data.

Exactly what you're
being judged on

Five pass criteria plus a hard drawdown cap, measured over your 28-day evaluation window. Clear all five by day 28 without a drawdown breach and your account converts to funded. Same rules then govern scaling on your rolling funded performance.

Sharpe Ratio
> 1.0 minimum

Risk-adjusted returns on your daily P&L series. Measures consistency, not raw profit — a few huge days alongside a string of losers won't clear the bar.

Max Drawdown
€1,000 max total

€1,000 total loss cap plus a €500 daily cap during evaluation. Once funded, the total becomes a trailing cap that locks at your €10,000 starting balance once equity passes €11,000.

Positive P&L
Profitable cumulative

Your cumulative net P&L has to end above zero. No minimum amount — but an account that never turns a net profit won't scale, and won't pay out.

Orthogonal Alpha
> 0 uncorrelated

Returns independent of the consensus — the unique signal your algorithm contributes on top of the crowd. Copies of consensus models don't scale here.

Submission Days
≥ 20 / 28 filled days

Days where at least one delivery hour actually filled. Pure forecasting without committing to bids doesn't clear the bar — you need to trade, not just predict.

Forecast Accuracy
< 10 €/MWh mean abs. error

Average error on your price forecasts against actuals, averaged across DA and balance. Keeps the incentive on forecasting accurately — not just picking a direction.

Your path from zero to €250,000
Free sandbox
Build and backtest
€199 · 28-day eval
Meet all five criteria
Funded
Keep 70% of profits going forward
Scale account
Up to €250,000

Your €199 is a one-time fee for the 28-day evaluation — no subscriptions, no data charges. Meet all five criteria without a drawdown breach and your account converts to funded on day 29, with the same rules applied on a rolling basis. Fail and you can retake after a 24-hour cooldown. See footer for full trading disclosures.

Everything you need
in one place

Currently in development — founding cohort applications open. Be among the first traders on the platform.
Dashboard trader_0x4a9  |  Evaluation · Day 18 of 28
Cumulative P&L
Updates at launch
Daily DD used
of €500 cap
Total DD used
of €1,000 cap
Win rate
Updates at launch
Cumulative P&L — 18 days
Recent Trades
TimeMarketDirVol (MWh)PriceP&L
09:14DE-DA H14BUY5€88.40+€142
10:00DE-DA H15SELL5€89.58+€76
11:30DE-DA H16BUY10€91.20−€38
13:00DE-DA H17BUY10€87.50+€210
14:00DE-DA H18SELL5€84.10+€48
Backtest Engine
Jan 1, 2023Dec 31, 2023
Total P&L+€18,420
Consistency Score2.14
Max Loss Used−8.3%
Win Rate58.4%
Total Trades1,204
Avg Trade P&L+€15.30
Live Sandbox Strategy running
Evaluation Day 18 of 28
Equity €10,940 · 5/5 criteria on track
✓ Sharpe 1.84 ≥ 1.0
✓ Daily DD €140 < €500
✓ P&L +€2,840 > 0
Open Positions
MarketDirVolumeEntryCurrentUnrealised
DE-DA H14LONG10 MWh€87.50€88.40+€9
DE-DA H15SHORT10 MWh€89.20€88.80+€4
P&L & Payouts
Next payout (May 1) €4,830 70% share of €6,900 April net profit
Total paid out €11,200
Capital allocated €25,000
Payout history
MonthGross P&LYour 70%Status
April 2026€6,900€4,830Pending
March 2026€5,420€3,794Paid
February 2026€4,860€3,402Paid
January 2026€5,720€4,004Paid

Building the meta-forecast
for Europe's energy

European power is one of the hardest forecasting problems in the world. Weather, policy, fuel, cross-border flows, renewable intermittency, and thousands of dispatch decisions collapse into a single price every hour. No desk, no quant team, no single institution prices it perfectly — and that is exactly why we built Voltra.

The best algorithm for European energy will not come from one office in Frankfurt or one quant team in London. It will come from hundreds of independent minds, each finding a small edge the others missed, stacked into a forecast that no individual could build alone. Every trader on Voltra is a contribution to that. Every payout we make goes to the ones whose edge survives.

The €199 evaluation fee funds what you actually compete for: the funded-account capital pool itself, premium market-data licenses that sharpen the edges available to everyone, and the infrastructure that keeps the platform running. It is also the filter that keeps the platform honest — real skin in the game means the traders here are the ones building seriously, not gaming the evaluation for free attempts. We grow when our traders grow. That is the only arrangement that makes sense when the product is a collective intelligence.

Every question
answered upfront

What markets can I trade?
Germany is the launch market — hourly day-ahead, simulated fills at the cleared price. Additional European zones and intraday granularity open as we grow.
Is there a fee to sign up or go live?
Signing up, exploring the platform, and backtesting are all free — no credit card required. The €199 one-time fee unlocks a 28-day evaluation on a €10,000 simulated account. Pass and your account converts to funded with no additional fee. No subscription, no recurring charges — Voltra only earns after that when you do, 30% of profits, nothing else.
How long is the evaluation period?
28 calendar days from activation. You must clear all five criteria by the end of day 28 — Sharpe > 1.0, cumulative P&L > 0, orthogonal alpha > 0 vs baseline, forecast MAE under threshold, and at least 20 of 28 days with a filled submission — while staying inside the flat €500 daily / €1,000 total drawdown caps. Pass and your account converts to funded on day 29 at the full €10,000; fail and you can retake after a 24-hour cooldown with a new €199. You can spend as long as you need in the free sandbox before activating.
What happens if I hit a drawdown limit?
During evaluation: a €500 daily loss cap and a flat €1,000 total loss cap from your €10,000 starting balance. Breach either and the evaluation ends — retake after a 24-hour cooldown with a new €199. Once funded: same €500 daily cap, and the €1,000 total becomes a trailing cap that follows your high-water mark up and permanently locks at your €10,000 starting balance once equity exceeds €11,000.
Do I need to be a licensed trader?
No. You are not the entity trading — Voltra Trading executes trades using your algorithm's signals on your behalf. You are a strategy developer, not a broker or trader in the regulatory sense.
Can Voltra Trading see my strategy code?
No. Your algorithm runs in an isolated Docker container. We only receive the signals it emits (buy/sell, volume, market, price). Your intellectual property is yours.
What starting account will I receive?
Every new funded account starts at €10,000 simulated capital on day 29 of evaluation. As you build a clean track record inside the drawdown caps, your account scales — up to €250,000 on sustained performance. Scaling reviews run off your rolling funded metrics, not fixed time gates.
When and how do I get paid?
Payouts begin on your funded account — there are no payouts during evaluation. Voltra pays your 70% profit share monthly, on the first business day of the following month, via SEPA or SWIFT bank transfer directly from our operating reserves. Bank details are set up in your portal before your first payout. Minimum payout threshold is €200; balances below that roll to the next month.
What programming language does my strategy need to use?
Python is the native language — we provide extensive documentation and example strategies. Any language that can emit a valid JSON signal over HTTP or WebSocket will work.
Do I need energy market knowledge?
Helpful but not required. We provide comprehensive documentation on European power market structure — how the day-ahead auction clears, how intraday and balancing interact, how renewable forecast error drives price. Many of our best traders came from other domains.
How much historical data do I get?
Free sign-up unlocks our full historical dataset: 10+ years of hourly day-ahead prices, load and renewable generation series, weather covariates, fuel and carbon references, plus calendar features — all point-in-time and curated in-house. No data charges, ever.
Is this a scam? I've seen other prop firms take fees and never pay out.
We understand the concern — the prop firm industry has bad actors. Here is what makes us different: we are a registered company in Denmark, our founders are named and findable on LinkedIn, we publish our payout data publicly once we launch, and our legal terms are clear — if you pass the 28-day evaluation, you are funded, and your 70% profit share is paid monthly by SEPA bank transfer from our operating reserves.
What happens to my €199 if I fail the evaluation?
It is non-refundable — it pays for the 28-day evaluation itself, not your result. If you fail (drawdown breach or criteria not met by day 28), you can keep building and backtesting in the free sandbox and retake after a 24-hour cooldown with a new €199. Many traders refine their approach on their second attempt.
Is my trading capital at risk?
You never put up trading capital. Ever. The €199 evaluation fee is the only money you pay us — your simulated account trades against Voltra's reserves, not yours. Your only financial exposure is that evaluation fee.
When does real money get involved?
Real cash payouts begin the moment your account converts to funded and generates profits. We pay 70% of your net profits monthly from our own reserves — first payout lands on the first business day of the month following your first profitable funded month.
Does the profit split improve as I scale?
Yes. The 70/30 split applies at the €10,000 and €25,000 tiers. At €50,000 you move to 75/25. At €100,000 and above you move to 80/20. Scaling runs on a quarterly cadence — every three months, if you meet the performance floor and haven't breached drawdown, your allocation advances to the next tier. Full tier and scaling rules are in the Trader Agreement.
Are you regulated?
We are a registered technology and education platform in Denmark — not a bank, broker, or investment firm. We do not manage client money or provide investment advice. The prop-firm evaluation model is well-established and operates legally across 180+ countries — it exists across forex, equities, futures, and commodities markets. Energy markets are simply the next frontier. Full disclosures are in our Terms and in the footer.
Do I need domain knowledge in energy markets?
No. We provide clean, structured data with all the context you need. If you can predict stock prices, you can predict energy prices. The Voltra Academy covers everything from market structure to strategy building — and it's free.
What Python libraries can I use?
Anything. scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, LightGBM, statsmodels — your model runs entirely on your own machine. We only receive your predictions, never your code.
How often do I need to submit predictions?
Once per day before 11:30 CET. You can automate this with a cron job or GitHub Actions — run your model overnight, push predictions in the morning, done.
What exactly do I submit each day?
Four numbers per delivery hour — two price forecasts and two control scalars:

1. Day-ahead forecast (€/MWh) — where you think the auction will clear.
2. Balance forecast (€/MWh) — where you think the imbalance price will settle.
3. Size signal (0–1) — drives your size from 0.1 to 1.0 MWh. Set it to 0 and the hour becomes forecast-only — your forecast still scores for accuracy (MAE + alpha), but you take no position.
4. Bid offset (0–1) — where in the interval between your two forecasts you want to bid. 0 = bid at the balance forecast (easier fill, worse entry), 1 = bid at the day-ahead forecast (better entry if filled, might miss).

The engine computes your bid automatically from your forecasts and bid offset, then fills it against the actual cleared day-ahead price. P&L settles against the balance price as direction × (actual_balance − cleared) × size, where direction is long if your balance forecast > DA forecast, short otherwise.
Are there trading fees?
Yes — €0.50 per MWh filled, deducted from each trade's simulated P&L. This mirrors real-world exchange and clearing fee structures so your model learns to be profitable net of costs, not just gross.
Can I see other traders' strategies?
No. The leaderboard shows performance metrics only — P&L, Sharpe, drawdown. Your code never leaves your machine and is never shared with anyone.
What external data can I use?
Anything you can get your hands on. Our dataset plus weather APIs, news feeds, satellite imagery, macroeconomic data — whatever gives you an edge. We only restrict look-ahead: your model must use data available before the 11:30 CET cutoff on submission day.

Start building
your strategy today

Open signup — no application, no waitlist. Pick a username, set a password, and you're in. Free sandbox access is permanent. €199 unlocks a 28-day evaluation only when you're ready to trade for payouts.

  • ✓ Free sign-up — no credit card required
  • ✓ Over 5 years of curated European power data (2021-present)
  • ✓ Full backtesting environment, unlimited time
  • ✓ Example Python strategies to clone
  • ✓ €199 one-time for the 28-day evaluation, paid only when you're ready

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