The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Steve Chen is a Los Angeles-based financial educator and the founder of Call to Leap, an investing-education company he started after eight years teaching middle school math in Los Angeles public schools; he says he reached financial independence at age 33 and left teaching in February 2020. His content targets beginners, particularly people starting late (he says most of his students are 40+), and combines long-term ETF and blue-chip investing with options-income mechanics such as covered calls, cash-secured puts, the wheel strategy, LEAPS and spreads. Call to Leap sells masterclasses (a Beginner's Investing Masterclass and a Passive Income Investing class on covered calls) and a membership community that Chen says has over 5,000 "Wealth Builders"; he also claims a personal portfolio of $1.5M+ and has been featured by Entrepreneur, Insider, Yahoo Finance, FEE and QuickBooks. As of July 2026 his accounts show roughly 1.7M TikTok followers, 3M Instagram followers and 691K YouTube subscribers.
