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Championship Circuit · since 1984
Real-money futures and forex championship run by Robbins Trading Company, continuously since 1984. Winners enter the permanent record of the sport.
The Robbins Cup is the common name for the World Cup Trading Championship (WCTC), a real-money trading championship run by Robbins Trading Company in Chicago since 1984. Entrants fund their own account and are ranked on audited percentage return over the contest period: not on absolute profit, so a small account can win outright. It runs in futures and forex divisions, annually plus shorter quarterly and monthly formats. Larry Williams holds the record with 11,376% in 1987; Andrea Unger is the only four-time champion (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012).
The World Cup Trading Championship (WCTC, also called Robbins WCTC) has run continuously since 1984. Unlike a crypto-exchange tournament with a cash pool, WCTC is scored on percentage return of a real-money account over the calendar year. The prize is mostly prestige: a WCTC title is the kind of credential that still introduces a trader in a finance article forty years later.
The 1987 winner, Larry Williams, returned an audited 11,376% on his account. That single result is still the most-cited number in trading-championship history. Subsequent champions, Stuart Walton (3x) and Andrea Unger (4x, the only four-time winner), built careers on top of the credential.
These are the WCTC contests currently open for entry or scoring in 2026. Each entry pulls the live registration deadline and prize structure from the Robbins source feed.
WCTC is not one event: it is a portfolio of divisions, each with its own calendar and asset class. Knowing which division to enter matters more than knowing the championship exists.
The full canonical list lives in the Hall of Fame. A few that anchor the championship's reputation:
WCTC is open internationally. The path is:
The barrier to entry is funding the trading account and having real futures-trading experience, not the registration form. For risk-conscious entries the Quarterly and Monthly Divisions cost less upfront than the Annual Division.
The other multi-decade real-money championship is the U.S. Investing Championship (USIC), which runs in the same spirit but covers stocks rather than futures or forex. The crypto-equivalent niche is filled by ICTC and assorted exchange-run championships (CWTC, WCTC S8 on Gate) which use the championship branding marketing-style: none have the multi-decade audited record that WCTC and USIC carry.
See all live championship-tier events on the Championships index, or the per-platform Robbins page at /exchanges/wctc.
Every WCTC champion below has an audited-record profile on this site. If you're researching a name, start here.
Real-money trading championship sponsored by Robbins Trading Company. Running continuously since 1984, scored on audited percentage return of a real broker account over the contest period. Divisions cover annual futures, annual forex, quarterly day trading, monthly forex, and a multi-year Global Cup. A WCTC title is a career-grade credential: winners are cited as 'former WCTC champion' decades later.
Most-cited winner: Larry Williams, 1987, with an audited 11,376% return. Andrea Unger is the only four-time WCTC champion (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012). Stuart Walton won three times in the late 1980s and 1990s. Michelle Williams, daughter of Larry Williams, won in 1997 at age 16: the youngest champion on record.
Bybit and BingX run short-window crypto tournaments with cash prize pools paid by the exchange as marketing spend. WCTC runs year-long on a real-money futures/forex account, scored on verified percentage return, with the prize being prestige and a permanent record. Tournaments fill calendars; championships define careers. A trader can place top-10 in twenty exchange tournaments and still not get a sentence of biography from it: a WCTC division win, even unplaced, is biography material.
Yes. WCTC accepts international entrants: Andrea Unger (Italy), Bob Pardo, and many other non-US champions are on record. The entry path is the same: fund a Robbins Trading futures or forex account, pay the entry fee, trade the calendar period, accept Robbins audit on the broker statements. Tax and account-opening rules follow your residency, not the championship.
Annual Division entry fees historically run a few hundred dollars; Quarterly and Monthly Divisions are lower. Exact fees are set per contest by Robbins Trading and listed on each open 2026 Division card above. Account funding is the real cost: typically multiple thousand dollars in the broker account before you can compete meaningfully.
Robbins Trading publishes past top-three results on their own WCTC site. We catalog the multi-decade champions in our /hall-of-fame with primary-source citations. For the current calendar, the Open 2026 Divisions section above pulls live tournament data from the Robbins source feed.