About
Meet Eric
Eric O'Rourke is the founder of Alpha Crunching, a market analytics platform focused on short-term S&P 500 forecasting and options strategy selection. His work sits at the intersection of markets, math, and technology, using statistics, time-series analysis, and risk management to help traders make more informed decisions in index options. Eric also hosts the Stock Market Options Trading podcast, where he breaks down options concepts and real-world trading insights. Before Alpha Crunching, he spent 16 years in corporate IT building complex systems, which shapes his structured, systematic, and risk-aware approach to trading today.
Strategies
Alpha Crunching's strategies
What Alpha Crunching runs, and how each strategy has performed, is part of the marketplace.
Sign in to see Alpha Crunching's strategies
The marketplace listing, and the performance figures that go with it, are available to people with a PeakBot account. Creating one is free and takes a minute.
How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself.
That's it. PeakBot mirrors every trade: entries, adjustments and exits, automatically.
- 01
Connect your brokerage account
Connecting opens your broker's own sign-in. PeakBot never sees your password, and your money stays where it is.
- 02
Choose your trade size
Pick how large each trade should be for your account. Every order is sized to that.
- 03
Activate the strategy
When Alpha Crunching trades, you trade, placed in your account in under three seconds.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Trade with Alpha Crunching, automatically.
Connect your broker, choose your size, and every trade is placed in your account for you.

