The Modern Trade Risk Management Platform for Modern Trading Needs
Stop fighting with fragile spreadsheets. Say goodbye to clunky, monolithic legacy systems. Molecule’s cloud-native ETRM/CTRM platform is both tech-forward and design-forward — built for the purpose of making your job easier.
Molecule's Platform
Our Security
We know how crucial security is to you, and it’s the most important aspect of our technology — not only in our application, but as part of our operations every day.
Our Technology
We believe in using the best technology available as the foundation for our E/CTRM platform. Molecule uses, and prefers, open-source software — so we contribute to the community as well.
Our Scalability
When you buy cloud ETRM/CTRM software, you expect it to just work. We engineered Molecule for exactly that — to scale and adapt to your evolving trading needs.
Molecule's Features
Molecule’s Implementations
Let’s face it — ETRM/CTRM implementations are the worst. At Molecule, we aim to make this traditionally aggravating process better with a methodology that keeps your goals for the system in mind.
We pride ourselves on straightforward, yet thorough, implementations that don’t take forever to do, run by project managers with deep industry expertise.
Add-ons
Molecule also offers specialized add-ons for renewables, physical power, and crypto as well as a data lake-as-a-service.
HiveRenewables by Molecule
Hive, Molecule’s add-on for renewables, is designed to help companies trading a wide variety of renewable certificates – including Guarantees of Origin, RECs, EUAs, RGGIs, and more.
- Manage your renewables positions and P&L alongside the rest of your portfolio of energy and commodities
- Capture certificate attributes including vintages, serial numbers, retirement eligibility, and source, along with custom attributes you define
- Generate today’s and future positions using asset production forecasts and forward trades
- Optimize the retirement of certificates against obligations – customized to your business's needs
ELEKTRAPower by Molecule
Elektra, Molecule’s add-on for power, does everything you’d expect from an ETRM modeling financial and physical power. Plus, it also handles the ultra-complex, data-intensive problems you won’t typically find.
- Supports power-specific trade types like DART spreads, PTPs, DA awards, FTRs/TCRs/CRRs, and ancillaries
- Models & marks FTRs throughout their lifetime, from award to hourly settle
- Provides STP feeds from ICE, CME, EEX/Nodal Exchange, and Trayport (where applicable and licensed)
- Helps you stay up-to-date with automated reconciliation and award downloads
- Provides granular modeling and real-time actualization for complex power contracts
DJINNEnterprise Crypto & Data Centers by Molecule
Molecule is the only ETRM that handles crypto natively and helps forward-thinking generation companies model their data centers using Djinn.
- Model cryptocurrencies alongside all the other commodities you trade
- Connect to crypto exchanges including Coinbase and Gemini for market prices and/or straight-through processing (STP) of spot transactions
- Model data centers as assets alongside power plants and other trading activity, all the way to 1-minute intervals
- Codify your company’s optimization model for determining when to run, and when to curtail
BigbangData Fabric for Energy by Molecule
Bigbang, Molecule’s data lake add-on, enables you to merge all your trading data from Molecule + other sources into one place, so you can query, analyze, and extract insights from your trading data quickly and easily.
- Direct access to Molecule data to perform complex, time series-based queries
- Near real-time, automated data streaming from Molecule
- Merge data from Molecule with data from your other key systems, such as ERPs, GLs, SCADA systems
Frequently Asked Questions
Molecule started in 2012, and we’ve been building the platform from the ground up ever since.
Learn More About Our Story HereMolecule is a cloud-native, multi-tenant E/CTRM, which allows for increased accessibility, scalability, adaptability, and cost efficiency. What does all of this mean for you?
Read More In Our Blog PostWe release product updates approximately twice a month at no additional cost to you. Our job is to thoroughly test each release, which we do with a combination of manual and automated testing, as well as a “valuation backtest” each time we touch any position/P&L logic. This allows us to get things right the first time, and if something important goes wrong, we are able to release a fix quickly.
Molecule is designed for companies trading any commodity, or combination of commodities — and our customers come in all shapes and sizes. We handle power, natural gas, crude & refined products, renewables, ags & softs, biofuels, NGLs, and metals.
We cover a multitude of trade types, including (but not limited to) exchange futures, bilateral swaps and physical forwards, spot deals, formula-priced deals, options, and more.
See a Complete List of Trade Types We Handle HereOur implementations scale depending on a variety of factors, including complexity and scale of the business, what we’re implementing, customizations, and integrations. We aim for a fast integration that takes months, not years.
Find Out More About Our ImplementationsWe treat training as a collaborative effort with the customer. Our goal is to engage end users as early as possible, capture their input into the configuration and setup, and get them quick access to the system via their own test environment.
Molecule ships with several standard extracts, including Valuation (position, P&L), YTD/QTD/MTD, Trades, and VaR. Most Molecule users also use custom reports that we build alongside them and deploy in our application.
When a standard report is run in Molecule, it typically pulls from pre-computed data (instead of calculating on the fly). This allows it to run very quickly.
Molecule offers user- and group-based permissions that cover feature/screen access, trade books, and custom reports.