The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Chad Thackray is a British software developer and YouTube educator whose channel, described as "Programming education for Traders," publishes free full-length courses on Python algorithmic trading, backtesting frameworks such as VectorBT, and realistic analyses of automated trading; his channel counts about 23,000 subscribers with roughly 1.37 million total views across 82 videos as of mid-2026. He is the director of Greyhound Analytics Ltd, a UK company registered in 2020 through which he runs an algotrading and data-science blog and sells custom quant software development, offering a $1,000 diagnostic sprint that turns a client's strategy into a technical spec followed by a fixed-price build delivered in 2-4 weeks. UK Companies House records identify him as Chad Richard Thackray, a British national resident in the United Kingdom, born in October 1998. His VectorBT beginner course is listed among community resources in the official VectorBT documentation.
