Option Alpha has been an industry leader in options trading industry for more than a decade and was recently included in the Inc 500 fastest-growing private companies in 2018 with a position rank of #215 and again in 2019 with a position rank of #723. The company was originally founded by Kirk Du Plessis. In 2018, Option Alpha merged with Alta5, founded by Jack Slocum, a technology company focused on building advanced end-to-end automation technology for options traders. The company is currently headquartered in Miami Florida. Option Alpha now provides an all-in-one platform for retail investors and traders offering first-class education, groundbreaking research and data analysis, integrated backtesting, and crowdsourced intelligence software, as well as the industry's first end-to-end automation technology for options trading. In 2020, the company announced the release of the first public autotrading platform for stocks and options for retail investors.