--- title: Colocated with EEX - Bringing your trading logic to the venue’s doorstep description: Gain an immediate edge on the EEX M7G migration. Connect your trading logic to our low-latency infrastructure today and backtest before go-live. image: https://e-star.com/hubfs/estar%20eda%20%2827%29.png --- [![e*star logo](https://e-star.com/hubfs/estar_logo_rgb.svg)](https://e-star.com) - [![linkedin](https://e-star.com/hubfs/linkedin.svg)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/e-star-trading-gmbh) - [our services](https://e-star.com/energy-trading-services) - [solutions](https://e-star.com/multi-market-energy-trading-suite-solution) - [about us](https://e-star.com/about-estar-energy-trading) - [partner](https://e-star.com/partner) - [insights](https://e-star.com/blog) - [contact](https://e-star.com/contact-estar-trading) [*>>* Demo](https://e-star.com/de/book-your-personal-online-session-energy-trading) # Colocated with EEX - Bringing your trading logic to the venue’s doorstep Gain an immediate edge on the EEX M7G migration. Connect your trading logic to our low-latency infrastructure today and backtest before go-live. [Sebastian Meyer](https://e-star.com/blog/author/sebastian-meyer) Jul 9, 2026 --- We recently were not only rubbing shoulders with the EEX people at the Leipzig Firmenlauf, our engineering and delivery teams are now also sitting in the exact same building as the European Energy Exchange (EEX), separated by just a floor. And the location of our new office in Leipzig is half the strategy. This proximity offers all kinds of advantages, but it also forces a very practical question most gas desks are about to face: **How close is your software to the actual venue?** The EEX has officially announced the migration of its natural gas spot market to the new M7G trading engine. While the formal transition is slated for the second half of 2027, the window for competitive advantage is open right now. Most desks will treat this as a distant IT obligation, waiting for the final go-live before scrambling to patch their legacy connectivity. But when a major exchange is making such big updates, waiting can be a commercial risk. Any latency lag or unoptimized interface protocol on day one means immediate margin erosion. Because our teams are physically colocated with EEX, we have engineered our architecture to ensure your trading strategies can sit just as close to the venue as we do. ### **The M7G pre-release sandbox** Our core trading suite, ets, has maintained a direct connection to the pre-release M7G environment since mid-2025. We have already done the heavy integration plumbing on the backend. For your desk, this completely eliminates the traditional deployment lag and the typical "vendor waiting lists" that pile up during major exchange migrations. By plugging into a modular infrastructure ahead of the curve, trading desks gain an immediate, low-latency testing environment while the rest of the market is stuck in scoping meetings. **A live-replicated shadow market**You can deploy your proprietary strategies and analyze automated execution behavior under real market conditions before the M7G engine officially takes over the order book. **Two years of replay data**Our backtesting engine features full historical market data captured natively since mid-2025. This lets your quant teams validate pricing logic against genuine market volatility rather than abstract software simulations. **Exchange-grade latency and auto-matching**Experience ultra-low latency, co-location-ready pipes built specifically to handle the high-throughput demands of 24/7 algorithmic gas spot execution. **A single synchronized workspace**Screen traders executing manually via our Energy Trader (eet) module and quant models running via automated pipelines consume the exact same data contracts simultaneously. You get a single, unified view of positions and risk across both spot and futures markets. ### **The infrastructure loophole** Every time an exchange overhauls its engine, trading IT departments face a forced integration tax. You have to reallocate development hours to rewrite your market connectivity layer anyway. But this engineering obligation is also a commercial loophole. Because the switching costs to walk away from a rigid, monolithic legacy provider drop to zero when you are forced to rebuild the connection anyway, the real choice is strategic: **Do you plug that fresh market connector back into a closed vendor box, or do you seize this opportunity to choose an open, modular foundation that allows you to scale custom logic independently?** You will eventually adapt to the new EEX M7G environment. The important question, however, is whether you will capture the spread by getting there first. Get in touch with our delivery team at [**sales@e-star.com**](mailto:sales@e-star.com) to activate your M7G test connections and let’s run a quick latency check together. ## What can we do for you? Write us and learn about the scalability of our SaaS technology.We are looking forward to your challenge. ## Similar posts ### [Click to cash - e\*star partners up with Previse Systems](https://e-star.com/blog/click-to-cash-estar-partners-up-with-previse-systems) e\*star and Previse Systems link trading and ETRM so desks execute faster, process at scale, and see risk and P&L in real time across power and gas. Sebastian Meyer Sep 9, 2025 electronic marketplaces ### [Electronic Marketplaces](https://e-star.com/blog/electronic-marketplace-0) Digitisation is playing an ever more present role in energy trading. Electronic marketplaces in particular are bringing together new assets and... 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