Jack Slocum

Founder

About

Jack's comprehensive background includes over 20 years building and scaling leading-edge tech companies. Jack founded Alta5 in 2014, an auto-trading platform for coders which merged with Option Alpha in 2018. Prior to Alta5, Jack founded Sencha, a platform and development tools company with over 2m customers worldwide, including 70% of the fortune 500 and 8 of top 10 financial institutions. In his free time, Jack loves to spend time with his kids and play basketball.

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What’s New in Option Alpha: November 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: November 2024

November's platform release features new enhancements to the 0DTE backtester, customizable automation scheduling, and new decisions for VIX and overnight gaps.

What’s New in Option Alpha: October 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: October 2024

October's platform release features an all new backtester to compare and combine 0DTE and next day trading opportunities with 1 minute historical data, and automatically create a bot from any backtest.

What’s New in Option Alpha: August 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: August 2024

The August platform release gives us the ability to auto-trade backtested 0DTE opportunities from the 0DTE Oracle; plus major improvements to bot building, and new decision recipes.

What’s New in Option Alpha: July 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: July 2024

July's release features the 0DTE Oracle and Earnings Edge, two new ways to find backtested trade ideas. Plus, the addition of Webhooks brings added flexibility for traders.

Earnings Edge: Backtested Earnings Trade Ideas

Platform Updates

Earnings Edge: Backtested Earnings Trade Ideas

Earnings Edges gives traders a math-based approach to find backtested opportunities based on historical price action post-earning.

0DTE Oracle: Find and Backtest 0DTE Options Trades

Platform Updates

0DTE Oracle: Find and Backtest 0DTE Options Trades

0DTE Oracle is a new tool that helps us find and analyze 0DTE and next day trading opportunities.

Webhooks: Integrate Option Alpha with External Platforms

Webhooks: Integrate Option Alpha with External Platforms

Webhooks allow us to connect our Option Alpha bots to external platforms and trigger automations using custom trading signals, technical indicators, email alerts, and more.

What’s New in Option Alpha: May 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: May 2024

May's release features a major update to the tickers screen, including future price projections, key data for option expirations, a new interactive payoff diagram, enhanced earnings stats, and more.

What’s New in Option Alpha: April 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: April 2024

April's release includes Scanner updates, new Trade Idea filters, an upgraded event calendar, improved bot watchlist filters, bot groups, new decisions, and more.

What’s New in Option Alpha: March 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: March 2024

The newest platform release features OA Labs with earnings stats and price forecasting, plus new decision recipes, bot updates and more.

What’s New in Option Alpha: February 2024

What’s New in Option Alpha: February 2024

The new platform release includes personalized and shareable watchlists, custom bot symbols, bot decision stats, conditional automation actions, new scanner scheduling options, updated UI, and more.

United Petition to CBOE to Lower SPX Option Minimum Bid Increments

United Petition to CBOE to Lower SPX Option Minimum Bid Increments

Join the options trading community in advocating for a change in the minimum SPX options bid increments from $0.05 to $0.01.

Option Alpha October 2023 Release

Option Alpha October 2023 Release

Option Alpha's October platform release includes enhanced position management controls, customizable columns, and all-new updates to display key trade details.

Congrats on $1 Billion in Live Trades

Congrats on $1 Billion in Live Trades

We’re pleased to announce that together we have crossed a huge milestone in live options trades.

Option Alpha April 2023 Release

Option Alpha April 2023 Release

2023's second major platform release includes 1-minute trailing stops, a reimagined automation editor, SmartPricing upgrades, Trade Ideas improvements, and more.

Trader Spotlight: Reuben Helmuth

Trader Spotlight: Reuben Helmuth

We are so grateful and thrilled to be able to spotlight one of the most prolific bot builders and tireless people we know, Reuben Helmuth.

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