The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Thomas Skinner is a Columbia University student who runs the finance-education brand DeltaTrend Trading on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube (over 100,000 followers combined), marketed under the tagline "sharing an Ivy League finance education for free." His content centers on quantitative and options-trading concepts, including delta/gamma hedging and implied-versus-realized volatility forecasting, and he publishes original strategy research such as an October 2025 method that models a prop-firm trading account as a structured product priced via Monte Carlo simulation. He distributes some strategy code free via Linktree and is developing a related product, QuantPad.
