Earnings season can be one of the biggest drivers of volatility in the stock market—and understanding how stocks behave around earnings is critical for options traders.

In this episode, I’m joined by Dan to talk about trading earnings and a tool he uses called Earnings Watcher. We break down the basics of volatility around earnings announcements, common patterns traders look for, and how Earnings Watcher helps stay organized while analyzing historical price and volatility behavior around earnings events.

Whether you actively trade earnings or just want a better understanding of how earnings impact the broader market, this conversation will help put the process into context.

🔗 Earnings Watcher: https://earnings-watcher.com/pricing_smot

In this episode, we review some early backtest results from AlphaCrunching.com's newly launched 0DTe Trend Spread Engine (TSE).

We're only 3 weeks into the stats but taking 0DTE trend spreads during the lunch hour at 12pm over the past 3 weeks has won 100% of the time. We're not expecting this type of performance to last forever but seeing this hot spots of high performance based on time of day entry is revealing some edge most traders are missing.

We would love you to join Alpha Crunching as we continue this build in public approach for SPX 0DTE Options Trading.

👉 Explore Alpha Crunching and get a discount:

https://alphacrunching.com

Discount code: SPX50 for 50% off first month or year.

🔗 Connect with Eric on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jericorourke/

In this episode, Eric breaks down the core ideas behind the 0DTE Trend Spread Engine (TSE) and how it fits into the broader Alpha Crunching philosophy of trading probabilities, not predictions.

The TSE is built to systematically identify high-probability SPX credit spread ideas by combining intraday trend, time-based structure, and defined risk. Rather than reacting to every move, the focus is on stacking small statistical edges and letting data—not emotions—drive decisions.

This episode also explains why strike selection and credits can vary, why these are trade ideas (not alerts), and how Alpha Crunching approaches options trading like an insurance business built on consistency and process.

👉 Explore Alpha Crunching and get a discount:

https://alphacrunching.com

Discount code: SPX50 for 50% off first month or year.

🔗 Connect with Eric on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jericorourke/