The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Imran Lakha is a London-based options trader and educator with more than 20 years of experience in equity derivatives. Starting at Credit Suisse in 2001, he went on to run European equity index options trading desks at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America and Citibank, and later worked as a macro portfolio manager at Bluecrest Capital. In 2018 he founded Options Insight, an education and research firm offering courses (The Options Insight Advantage, The Ultimate Options Course), the Alpha Pod membership with Discord community and daily macro and crypto options research, and one-on-one coaching; he has also produced options courses for Real Vision and SpotGamma and co-hosts the Crypto Options Unplugged podcast with David Brickell. As of mid-2026 his platforms show roughly 28.4K followers on X, about 6.8K YouTube subscribers, and around 1.4K Instagram followers.
