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Is the only four-time winner of the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading — taking the title in 2008 (672% return), 2009 (115%), 2010 (240%), and 2012 — and the first Italian trader to ever win the championship. No other competitor has matched the consistency of those four titles across a five-year window. Unger trained as a mechanical engineer in Milan before turning to markets full-time in the late 1990s. The engineering background shaped a methodology that is now widely associated with his name: portfolios of dozens of fully automated, uncorrelated trading systems, each with a clearly defined edge, deployed across futures markets — equity index, energy, metals, agricultural, and FX. He explicitly rejects the "one beautiful strategy" framing that dominates retail trading content. In a Better System Trader interview, he summarized it: "If you trade ten or fifteen good systems on uncorrelated markets, you don't need any of them to be brilliant. You just need each one to be honest about what it actually does." The 2008 winning year is particularly notable because it ran through the global financial crisis. Most discretionary traders were either stopped out of momentum positions in October or whipsawed by the November-December reversal. Unger's systems, designed without market-regime assumptions baked in, caught both directions and finished the year at 672%. In 2015 he founded Unger Academy in Italy, now one of Europe's largest systematic-trading education businesses. The Academy publishes free weekly market analyses and runs paid mentorship programs that walk traders through coding, backtesting, and live deployment of multi-system portfolios in TradeStation, MultiCharts, and similar platforms. Unger is also the author of "The Unger Method" (2018), in which he formalized the four pillars he teaches: market diversification, strategy diversification, time diversification, and strict equity-curve risk control. He is a frequent speaker at TradersWorld and Wealth365 conferences, and his 2008–2012 WCTC standings are still cited by Robbins Trading on its Hall of Fame page.

Won the 2024 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading with a 532.30% net return on the year, the highest result posted in the futures division since the early-2010s peak of the Andrea Unger era. He runs Carlile Trading, a discretionary global macro shop based in Jackson, Wyoming, and is a Colorado State University graduate. His specialty — and what produced the winning year — is the fed funds futures complex. Carlile trades around mispricings between consensus rate-cut or rate-hike paths and the Federal Reserve's actual reaction function. The same approach delivered outsized profits during the 2008 TARP rollout and the March 2020 COVID rate-cut sequence, both of which he has discussed publicly. In a February 2025 interview with Benzinga, he described 2024 as "a year where the curve kept telling one story and the dot plot kept telling another. You don't need to be right about which one wins. You just have to be patient enough to be there when they reconcile." Position-sizing is what distinguishes the Carlile approach from most discretionary macro books. He runs concentrated, time-bounded bets around scheduled FOMC events with explicit invalidation prices, then steps to the sidelines between meetings. The 2024 P&L was generated from a small number of high-conviction trades around five FOMC decisions, not from trying to fade every move in between. Carlile is unusual among modern WCTC winners in being a discretionary trader rather than a systematic one — the championship has been dominated since the early 2000s by algorithmic competitors. He attributes that to a deliberate choice: macro mispricings around scheduled central-bank events are, in his framing, "a structural inefficiency that doesn't backtest well because the regime is always different." The systematic approach can capture momentum or carry; it does not naturally express the kind of asymmetric, event-driven view that the fed funds curve rewards in regime-shift years like 2024.

Is the most decorated competitive trader in the history of futures markets. Born in Miles City, Montana in 1942, he started trading commodities in the late 1960s while working in advertising, and by the mid-1970s had become a full-time speculator. He is the creator of two indicators that became standard parts of every charting package — the Williams %R momentum oscillator and the Ultimate Oscillator — and the author of more than a dozen books on speculation, including "How I Made One Million Dollars Last Year Trading Commodities" (1973) and "Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading" (1999). His defining moment came in the 1987 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading, where he turned a $10,000 entry account into $1,137,600 over twelve months — a 11,376% net return that remains the highest result ever posted in the championship's four-decade history. The trade book that produced it was concentrated in S&P 500 futures and bonds, executed largely with cycle and seasonality models he had been refining since the early 1970s. A decade later, in 1997, his daughter Michelle Williams entered the same WCTC futures championship at age 17 and won, posting roughly a 1,000% return. That father-daughter sequence — both winning at age 17 and at maturity respectively — has no precedent in any trading competition before or since. Williams remains an active educator through ireallytrade.com, where he runs trading seminars and publishes weekly market commentary. In a 2017 conversation with Better System Trader, he framed his approach this way: technical analysis matters, but only as a way to express a fundamental view about cycles in supply, sentiment, and money flow. "Indicators are not the trade. The trade is what the market is doing — indicators help you measure it." He is also one of the most cited examples in academic studies of survivorship bias in trading competitions, partly because his result is so far above the second-place finishers that purely random explanations have been formally tested and rejected.

Maksim is the pseudonym of the trader who led the Openworld squad to victory in Bybit's World Series of Trading 2023 — the largest crypto-trading tournament of that year, with 120,000 entrants from 188 countries trading $70.5 billion in cumulative volume against a $8 million USDT prize pool. Maksim posted a 5,772% return in the 30-day contest window. Crypto-tournament winners are commonly pseudonymous and rarely publish a verified personal identity for security and tax-residency reasons. The Bybit press team published an interview with Maksim at the Taiwan News and EQS News outlets in late 2023. He has not been publicly identified beyond the username and squad affiliation.

Holds the most-cited verified personal stock-trading record in modern markets — turning $10,775 into $18 million between June 1998 and December 1999, a roughly 29,000% return over eighteen months independently audited and reported in Fortune magazine. The defining trade was a January 1999 CMGI position that returned 210% in four trading days. A former pool contractor, Zanger built the result on classical technical chart patterns — cup-and-handle, flag, ascending triangle — applied with aggressive position sizing during the dot-com bull market. He has run The Zanger Report, a chart-pattern-focused trading newsletter, since the early 2000s. His record is not from a tournament but from a verified live retail account, which is why it is treated as the canonical "best public retail return" in trading reference works.

Won the 2020 U.S. Investing Championship under-$1M stock division with a 941.10% return — the highest result ever recorded in that division of the championship. A 2010 Bowdoin College graduate, Kell credits the win to concentrated positioning in pandemic-era growth winners including Livongo, Tesla, Peloton, and Spotify. His 2021 book "Victory in Stock Trading: Strategies and Tactics of the 2020 U.S. Investing Champion" codified the trading framework that produced the result, drawing heavily on the CAN SLIM lineage of David Ryan and Mark Minervini. Kell continues to run his trading book and publish via Kell Capital Management.

Is a two-time U.S. Investing Champion across a 24-year span — winning in 1997 with a 155% return achieved while invested only roughly half the time, and again in 2021 with 334.8% across a strong post-pandemic growth-stock environment. A self-taught trader with no formal finance background, Minervini developed the SEPA (Specific Entry Point Analysis) and VCP (Volatility Contraction Pattern) methodologies, both of which are now widely cited in growth-stock trading literature. He is the author of "Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard" (2013) and "Think & Trade Like a Champion" (2017), both of which spent extended periods on Amazon's investing best-seller list. He runs Minervini Private Access, a community for serious growth-stock traders.

Won the U.S. Investing Championship three years in a row — 1985, 1986, and 1987 — with a compounded return of approximately 1,379%. The 1985 result alone was 161%. He is the only competitor to win the USIC in three consecutive years. Ryan was a 17-year protégé of William O'Neil, founder of Investor's Business Daily and the CAN SLIM growth-stock methodology. After his championship run, Ryan founded Ryan Capital Management in 1998. He is featured in Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards" as an example of strict discipline applied to growth stocks: small position sizing, tight stops, and willingness to be in cash when no qualified setup is available.

Martin S. Schwartz, known as "Buzzy," won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1984 with a result that, according to several public accounts, exceeded the combined gains of every other contestant in his division. A former Amex options floor trader who switched to a personal account after the 1979 oil crash, Schwartz became one of the most-quoted figures in Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards" (1989). He is the author of "Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader" (1998), the autobiographical account of his career as a discretionary day trader of S&P futures and equities. His core trading rule — "I don't want to be a hero. I want to be the unsung guy who's home counting his money" — is one of the most-cited pieces of trading psychology advice in the post-1990s retail era.

Is the back-to-back World Cup Championship of Forex Trading champion, winning in 2023 (355.30%) and 2024 (201.00%). The two consecutive titles place him in a small group with Jan Smolen as the only WCTC Forex Division traders to win in two successive years. Magala's results are listed in the Robbins official historical standings; biographical detail is not yet publicly published.

Won the 2023 Futures Division of the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading with a 491.40% net return, the highest result in the futures division between Andrea Unger's late-2010s reign and the 2024 Brent Carlile title. The Robbins Trading public-relations arm announced him as champion via the @WorldCupTraders X account in February 2024. Beyond the official standings, biographical information on Scherman remains scarce in English-language sources.

Is a Slovak trader who became the first back-to-back WCTC Forex champion, winning the World Cup Championship of Forex Trading in 2019 (113.6%) and 2020 (113.9%), then taking the Global Cup Trading Championship 2020-2021 at 247.6%. A university professor of financial management and economics by day, Smolen brought to retail trading a background in high-stakes online poker and tournament chess, where he was once ranked among the top fifteen Slovak players. He has discussed his approach in detail on the Optionsticker.com interview series and on YouTube.

Won the 2017 Futures Division of the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading with a 217.20% net return. A finance graduate of the University of Trento in Italy, he runs a portfolio of around 80 trading systems split between trend-following and mean-reversion approaches across CME and ICE futures markets. In his 2018 Unger Academy interview he framed his approach this way: "You don't need any single brilliant idea — you need many honest small edges that don't all break at the same time." He is a regular speaker at Wealth365 and other systematic-trading conferences and has continued to operate his trading book privately since the 2017 title.

Based in Ufa, Russia, is the first and only Russian winner of the Robbins World Cup Trading Championships — taking the 2016 Futures Division with a 914.80% net return, second only to Larry Williams' 1987 record in WCTC history. He followed up by winning the 2018 Forex Division at 200.60%. Reporting on the win in Russian-language financial forums emphasized that Teregulov declined Western offers to relocate or manage external capital after his 2016 title, choosing to remain a private trader in Ufa. His public footprint outside Russian-language sources is limited.

Is among the most-decorated WCTC competitors by total title count, with eight or more recorded victories across multiple divisions of the World Cup Trading Championships, including the 2015 Futures Division at 309.10% return. A former US Air Force pilot and commercial airline captain, Hughes started trading in 1984 with $4,600 of saved pay. His methodology centers on long-dated stock options as a leveraged trend-following vehicle, packaged into rules-based systems he sells through Hughes Optioneering. He is a frequent speaker at MoneyShow events and runs subscription advisory services that aim to make options-based trend-following accessible to the retail audience that finds raw futures trading intimidating.

Of the United Kingdom is the rare two-time WCTC futures champion — winning in 2007 with 250% and again in 2014 with 366%. Both results were generated by systematic strategies built and refined privately. Cook is one of the few non-US, non-Italian winners of the modern WCTC era and is referenced by Robbins Trading on its public Hall of Fame as an example of the international reach of the championship after its expansion of broker authorizations in the early 2000s.

Won the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading twice — in 2000 with a 595% return and in 2004 with 929% — making him one of the most aggressive returns posted in the modern era of the championship. Both wins are listed in the Larry Williams WCTC Hall of Fame compilation. Outside the WCTC standings, public information about Sakaeda's market views or methodology is limited; he did not pursue an educational or media career after winning.

Won the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading in 1997 at age 17 — exactly ten years after her father Larry Williams' record-setting 1987 victory. She turned a $10,000 entry account into roughly $110,000 over the calendar year, a near-1,000% return that made her the youngest WCTC champion in the championship's history and the first father-daughter winning combination in any documented professional trading competition. Unlike her father's continuing public career, Michelle stepped away from the trading spotlight after the win. She is occasionally confused with the actress of the same name (no relation). Her 1997 result is still cited in academic papers on cognitive biases in trading-competition data, partly because the family clustering — both winners at age 17 — is used as a test case in arguments around statistical clustering in performance attribution studies.

Egyptian trader based in Mecca, on the charts since 2017. An engineer by profession who turned market psychology into a second craft, known for patient, disciplined Gold (XAUUSD) analysis.

Mini-índice trader from Juiz de Fora, MG. Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Builds trading robots, studies AI, runs a micropigmentation business.

New Zealand systematic trader Tim Rea won the 2011 Robbins World Cup Championship of Futures Trading (104.1%), plus the 2008 CME E-mini Q3 sub-championship (83.9%) and 3rd place in the 2010 main futures championship (156.6%). Based in Richmond-Nelson, NZ, he runs approximately 100 systematic strategies across 25 futures contracts.

British journalist turned trader: winner of the inaugural 2004 Robbins WCTC Forex Championship (62.5%), 3rd in 2007, champion again in 2009 (44.4%). VSA + DeMark, daily charts, 15 pairs, solo.

German systematic trader Stefan Seibert is the only competitor to have won both the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading (2020, 342%) and the Global Cup Derivatives Trading Championship (2019), with additional first place in 2022 (262%) and multiple podium placements. His winning system, "Zeno," is now offered as an AutoTrade subscription via World Cup Advisor.

American trader Robert Miner is the author of "Dynamic Trading" and founder of Dynamic Traders Group (1993). He placed 1st in the 2018 WCTC Index & Interest Rate Futures division (86.5%), 3rd in the 2018 Forex Championship (70.4%), 3rd in the 2022-23 Global Cup Futures cycle (156.9%), and 3rd in the 2023 Forex Championship (60.3%).

Spanish trader from Lleida who won the 2025 WCTC Forex Championship with a record 600.9% net, plus Q2 and Q3 Quarterly Forex titles, trading one instrument intraday with a reported 78% win rate.

German forex trader based in Cyprus with eight WCTC Forex podium cycles (2021-2025), twice Global Cup Forex winner. Runs the World Class Edge mentorship built on order flow and volume profile.

The only Brazilian to win a WCTC category: 2017 Forex champion at 100.3%. Applied mathematician, algo trader since 2011, WorldQuant MSFE, and trading educator at Investidor de Sucesso.

Malaysian fund manager and the first Malaysian World Trading Champion: three straight 2024 WCTC quarterly titles, returns up to 357%. CIO of Berjaya Mutual, founder of DDNK Holdings.

Three-time World Cup Futures Trading Champion (1989, 1990, 1992). A Washington cattle feeder who beat the field trading the market he knew from the feedlot. Now owns Canyon Lakes Golf Course.

2016 World Cup Forex Trading Champion (+156.9%), winning in the year Brexit and the US election shook currency markets. One of the most private champions in the contest's history.

Italian trader Lorenzo Misino won the 2021 Robbins World Cup Forex Championship with a 405.5% return — first Italian to take the Forex division, and the largest WCTC forex result on record. From Bisceglie (Puglia), he ran systematic trading robots at night while working day-shifts at the family clothing store.

Italian forex trader Gianluigi Ventre has won six WCTC titles across the Quarterly, Monthly and Global Cup forex formats, including the 2024-2025 Global Cup Forex Championship at 271.6%. He holds multiple podium placings across 2023-2026, runs a Kajabi-hosted trader-education business, and is profiled in Traders' Magazine Italia as one of the dominant Italian forex competitors of the era.

CEO of Tralgo AG, a Swiss futures-trading firm. Currently leading the Robbins WCTC 2025-2026 Global Cup Futures Division at 363.2% (mid-contest) and running second in the standalone 2026 Futures Division at 323.9%.

Polish-born Canadian trader Ed Twardus won the 2005 Robbins World Cup Championship of Futures Trading with a 278% return after placing 2nd in 2004 at 167.2%. A University of Waterloo mechanical-engineering graduate based in Waterloo, Ontario, he trades futures across financial instruments (Canadian dollar, Swiss francs, T-bills) and physical commodities (corn, copper, live cattle).

Four-time WCTC Quarterly Day Trading champion (2025 Q2-Q4, 2026 Q1) with returns up to 930%. Founder of Live in Trading, three US-registered methodologies. Based in Andorra.

2012 World Cup Futures Trading Champion (+199.6%). California retail developer by trade. Returned to the WCTC leaderboard in 2025, thirteen years after his win.

Italian trader based in Zug who topped the 2025-26 Global Cup of Forex Trading standings (207.7%, pending audit) after a 2024 Quarterly Forex win and a 3rd place in the 2025 main Futures division.

Two-time U.S. Investing Champion (1992, 1993) and creator of the Cook Cumulative Tick. Traded S&P futures and options out of his family's 1870s farmhouse in East Sparta, Ohio. 1954-2021.

Creator of the CAN SLIM strategy, founder of Investor's Business Daily, and one of the most influential growth-stock investors ever. William O'Neil turned decades of market study into a system followe

Serial founder who reshaped retail trading. Built thinkorswim (sold to TD Ameritrade for ~$606M) and tastytrade/tastylive (acquired by IG Group for ~$1B). Former CBOE market maker, options evangelist,

Tim Sykes is the founder of the Millionaire Challenge, a penny-stock short seller, and the single most influential, and most criticized, figure in US retail-trading education.

Is the kroyrunner89 trader, a Chicago-born day trader who has publicly logged over $11M in penny-stock profits on Profit.ly since 2011 — the highest self-reported small-cap track record in the entire Tim Sykes lineage.

Is a Chinese-born, US-based short seller and educator with a 294K-subscriber YouTube channel and the Freedom Challenge course. His headline returns are self-reported and disputed.

Is the founder of Warrior Trading, an American day-trading educator who turned a small momentum-trading account into a publicly reported eight-figure P&L and now runs one of the largest day-trading communities in the US.

Is a Scottsdale, Arizona Tim Sykes Millionaire Challenge alumnus who left a full-ride college soccer scholarship to day-trade penny stocks and grew $4,000 into over $230K in his first year, eventually logging over $900K in trading profits on Profit.ly.

The Chicago "Prince of the Pit" who turned about $400 of borrowed capital into hundreds of millions, then ran the Turtle experiment that proved trend-following can be taught from scratch.

Legendary classical chartist with 45+ years in commodities and futures. CEO of Factor LLC, author of a trading classic on the professional's diary, and one of the most followed technical voices in mar

Is the founder of Investors Underground and the @InvestorsLive operator whose chat room became the bench for a generation of US small-cap momentum traders.

("Huddie") is a Tim Sykes Millionaire Challenge alumnus who started day-trading penny stocks as a USF sophomore on Robinhood and grew $1,000 into a publicly logged six-figure account.

Is famously known as Tim Sykes' first millionaire student, a disciplined penny-stock short seller, and the operator of GoodeTrades who continues to teach in the Sykes Millionaire Challenge program.

Is the founder of Bulls on Wall Street and runs one of the longest-running live day-trading bootcamps in US retail education, in operation since 2008.

Is a private US trader who self-reports turning $46,000 into $6.8 million in 28 months, documented in his cult book Insider Buy Superstocks. He stays deliberately out of financial media.

The legendary "Boy Plunger" who read the tape better than anyone of his era. Jesse Livermore made and lost several fortunes, famously shorting the Panic of 1907 and the Crash of 1929, and inspired the

Day trader, Tim Sykes' youngest millionaire student (2020). Turned $10K in valet savings into 7-figure penny-stock profits. Now a Trading Challenge mentor and real estate investor.

Better known by his X handle @lx21 — is a veteran US day trader whose self-reported Profit.ly track record has crossed $10M+ over more than two decades of trading.

One of the original Market Wizards. An MIT-trained engineer who built one of the first computerized trend-following systems in the early 1970s and has traded quietly ever since.

Canadian-Iranian day trader Andrew Aziz is the author of How to Day Trade for a Living and the founder of Bear Bull Traders, one of the largest day-trading education communities in North America.

Creator of the Continuation Acceleration Protocol (CAP). 10+ years, 30,000+ hours across BTC, ETH, SOL, metals, and forex. SOL 93% · BTC 83% · ETH 73% · Gold 72%.

8+ years trading BTC, forex, and volatile altcoins. 46K followers on TradingView. Telegram signal channel. Custom forex bot in development.

Dutch technical crypto analyst active since 2015, now based in Singapore. Writes for Bitcoin Magazine Netherlands and has worked inside top-10 crypto exchanges, known for reading how smart money reall

Is a Dutch economist, full-time crypto trader, and founder of MN Trading, MN Capital, and MN Fund — a Dutch-regulated investment fund focused on volatility trading and OTC deals. Active under @CryptoMichNL on X with a large international following for his daily Bitcoin and altcoin market analyses.

Dutch writer, journalist and crypto analyst, co-founder of CryptoTopic and a lead expert at Bitcoin Magazine Netherlands with 1,500+ articles. Focused on education: teaching people to read the market

Is a Dutch financial analyst and content creator focused on macroeconomics, Bitcoin, gold, and investing, best known by her online handle "Misss Bitcoin" and her 125K-subscriber YouTube channel. She has written for IEX, Investing.com, Business Insider, and Bitcoin Magazine NL, and is a recurring guest on BNR Cryptocast.

Is a Dutch investment specialist and technical analyst at online broker LYNX, with 10+ years of public TA experience across equities, indices, and crypto. He produces the LYNX Morning Call and LYNX Beursflash, and writes technical analyses for Bitcoin Magazine NL.

Is a Dutch full-time crypto day-trader and founder of Het Crypto Huis (2018), a Netherlands-based crypto education and coaching brand. He publishes daily technical analysis on his YouTube channel "Elroy Ryon — Crypto & Investeren" and contributes to Bitcoin Magazine NL and Crypto-Insiders.nl.

Is a UK-based English-language crypto creator who has been active across Web3-native platforms (Hive, Steemit, Blurt, DTube, PeakD) for years, with content covering XRP, NFTs, the metaverse and blockchain generally. Cross-posts to YouTube as @adetorrent.

Yuri Pesic (yuripesic) is a Brazilian CPA-20 certified trader based in São Roque, São Paulo, running the YouTube channel "Yuri Trader" on no-KYC crypto privacy, DeFi and passive dollar income.

Brazilian crypto-mining educator and one of the largest Portuguese-language references in the mining niche, with a YouTube channel of roughly 240K subscribers and tutorials covering everything from beginner rig setup to advanced multi-coin configurations. Also covers self-custody and digital security for retail crypto holders.

Is the founder of Tokeniza, a Web3 asset-tokenization platform in Brazil, and runs a Portuguese-language YouTube channel (98.5K subs) on crypto tax compliance and blockchain projects.

Ramon Cunha runs the Brazilian YouTube channel O Pulo do Gato, with 59.1K subscribers and 4M+ total views, producing accessible Portuguese-language content on DeFi and crypto investing.

Branded as Investing Made Simple, is an English-language YouTube channel with 264K subscribers helping retail investors navigate crypto's four-year cycle through educational videos.

André Janeiro Dias, a São Paulo-born ex-banker with an FGV finance MBA, runs the Mestre da Riqueza channel (2020), teaching stocks, real-estate funds and variable-income investing to Brazilian investo

Korean-American YouTuber who went from broke to millions in his 20s. His 2.1M-subscriber Jungernaut channel simplifies credit cards, personal finance and crypto for a young audience.

Leo Gravina is a Brazilian crypto educator publishing in Portuguese across YouTube (18.4K subs), Instagram (19.7K), X and Threads as @CryptoGravina, with contributor work for Mercurius Crypto.

Connor McLaughlin, known as Mickle, is a US-based XRP content creator with 126K on YouTube (@MickleXRP) and 66.6K on X (@xrpmickle). A prominent XRP-maximalist voice and paid Minnect expert.

Krishna Crypto is an Indian, Hindi-language YouTube channel publishing daily live trading analysis across crypto, forex, and gold. The editorial focus is Smart Money Concepts (SMC), order blocks, and live setups, aimed at the Indian retail-trader audience.

("Pomp") is the founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management and the operator of one of the largest independent finance media franchises in the US, anchored by The Pomp Podcast and a YouTube channel with roughly 530K–558K subscribers. Public figure, named, US-based, multi-platform.

("Plan A") is a former investment bank trader turned cross-asset macro KOL with 800K+ followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. He has been cited in Forbes, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance.

Douglas Tadeu is a Brazilian Portuguese-language YouTube creator with 95.3K subscribers, publishing under his own name at @dougtadeu, focused on crypto investing and market analysis.

The Diary Of A CEO is British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett's interview podcast: one of the world's largest shows with 18M+ YouTube subscribers, spanning business, health, science and the occasional cr

Dan Gambardello runs Crypto Capital Venture: a YouTube channel (since 2017) focused on Bitcoin and Cardano macro, plus Cardano stake pools, a Substack and a crypto-recruiting firm, all under one Phila

Philippines-based community crypto trading YouTube channel branded "Gab's CryptoPH," 30.2K subscribers, led by creator Tristan Gabriel Bal (goes by "Gab"). Content mixes English and Tagalog.

YouTube channel of Didi Taihuttu and his Dutch family, who liquidated all assets in 2016 to go all-in on Bitcoin and have lived as nomads — across 40+ countries — ever since. The channel mixes family vlog, travel and Bitcoin/crypto advocacy.

Ahmed Saifullah Yusuf, known online as "Ahmed XM," is a Nigerian SMC (smart money concepts) trader and educator based between Nigeria and Dubai, and the founder of XM Trading Academy. Mainstream Nigerian press (Vanguard) has profiled him as one of the most-followed crypto traders in Nigeria.

Nigerian finance YouTuber, crypto trader and entrepreneur Femi Olaniyan, with roughly 161K YouTube subscribers and a content stack across personal finance, crypto, Nigerian stock market, and forex. Runs paid education brands "Personal Finance Circle" and "Learn Crypto Trading Academy."

Is a Brazilian YouTube channel by Felipe Escudero: daily one-to-two-hour live streams on Bitcoin and altcoins plus market news, with 147K subscribers, 22M+ views and an eight-year run.

Brazilian professional crypto trader, investor and educator. CEO and founder of Financial Move — Latin America's largest crypto trading school — and a Forbes Under 30 LATAM honoree.

Fernando Stuchi, known as Professor, runs ProfessorNaWeb3, one of Brazil's most followed Web3 and DeFi channels, with 41.4K YouTube subscribers and 2,800+ published videos.

Is a Portuguese-language Brazilian YouTube channel (~230K subscribers) and education brand fronted by "Berman," self-described pioneer in binary options trading in Brazil with 10+ years in markets. He has built proprietary frameworks ("Berman Strategy," "Probabilistic Filters," "Market Cycle Theory," "Infinity Management") and claims 20K+ students.

Bruno A. Faria runs Clube dos Inconformados, a Brazilian YouTube channel on investing and financial education, with 39.9K subscribers and over 24 million total views since launch.

("Learning to Trade") is a Portuguese-language Brazilian YouTube channel and trading-education brand built by Wagner Brito, a self-described professional crypto trader since 2016 who runs a chart-analysis course. Named operator, named country.

Chicago-based crypto and Web3 educator with 19.6K YouTube subscribers. He covers memecoins, altcoin theses and entry/exit timing for retail, plus a beginner investing course and private community.

Is an English-language crypto content creator running token reviews and a self-built stack of trading tools: crypto tracker, wallet tracker, sniper, and instant trading terminal.

Fernando Stuchi, known as Professor, runs ProfessorNaWeb3, one of Brazil's most followed Web3 and DeFi channels, with 41.4K YouTube subscribers and 2,800+ published videos.

Ductor Marcus, a Brazilian attorney with 22+ years in financial markets, an MBA in capital markets and a blockchain postgrad, runs Momento Bitcoin: long-form Bitcoin and macro analysis for serious inv

Martyn Lucas is a UK-linked English-language stocks-and-crypto creator who runs the high-cadence "Martyn Lucas Investor" YouTube channel (113k+ subs, 9k+ uploads) and a secondary channel "Martyn Lucas Investor EXTRA", with a particular focus on XRP, Bitcoin and live market reactions.

Is a US-based crypto trader, memecoin degen and educator active since 2017. His YouTube content covers trading, market psychology, and altcoin opportunities, with matching handles on X an

Is a Brazilian financial educator behind "Diário de um Investidor" (125K subscribers), covering fixed income, equities, and credit, shaped by his own debt-recovery story.

Altemar Lacerda, known online as "RendaNFT," is a Brazilian Web3 creator (16.3K YouTube subscribers) focused on NFT play-to-earn games, an Arbitrum Ambassador and Ronin Network Creator.

Brazilian crypto creator Lucas Soares, known as "Pato Crypto," posts daily Portuguese-language videos: coin reviews, market analysis, tutorials, NFTs and airdrops for retail newcomers, always with a c

Is a French financial educator and YouTuber who runs the leading French-language crypto reference channel, with 466K subscribers and a premium "Club X" coaching program.

Is the brand of Vrajesh Chauhan, an India-based crypto content creator with 5 years of experience covering Bitcoin, altcoins, and crypto regulation across YouTube, X and Instagram.

Is a Brazilian Portuguese-language YouTube and Telegram channel producing crypto technical analysis, with a premium signal-feedback group for paying members.

Is a Brazilian Portuguese-language YouTube and X brand run by João Pedro, covering crypto, stocks, and financial-freedom content, with a matching Instagram presence.

Heisterkamp is a Dutch crypto trader, mentor and creator behind Het Crypto Huis and its Day Trading Community for Dutch and Belgian traders, with a 10K+ YouTube channel and Elliott Wave edu

Guirak (Will) runs SUPER Solana, a French-language YouTube channel on the Solana ecosystem, DeFi yield, and airdrops, with 9.72K subscribers and Solana Foundation backing.

Is a French-language crypto YouTube channel based in Abu Dhabi, UAE with 174K subscribers and 4,100+ videos. Content targets francophones but explicitly excludes French residents.

Is a French-language finance and crypto media brand covering markets, Web3, and blockchain news weekly, with a multi-platform presence across YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok.

Is a French trader and educator with 146K on Instagram and a smaller YouTube channel, known for daily live trading sessions on gold, forex, and crypto, plus TEDx and Forbes features.

Self-Made Program is a French YouTube channel run by Sébastien, an entrepreneur focused on e-commerce and Shopify dropshipping, with 114K subscribers and paid mentorship programs.

(DAI) is an anonymous, US-based XRP-focused YouTuber (236K subscribers, 90M+ views) covering Ripple, SEC filings and XRP's intersection with traditional finance in daily long-fo

Brazilian crypto educator and Head of LATAM at Ultima Markets. Ex-PwC (10 years, M&A and audit), OKX partner, Bitrue ambassador. Runs the "Curso Viver de Cripto" course, mentoring and a podcast.

Is an English-language crypto creator on YouTube, X (@CryptoJune777) and Telegram, active since 2017. Focus on small-cap altcoins and masternode setup tutorials like $KIIRO.

Crypto Insight, is a French-language on-chain narrative analyst active since early 2025, with a small but growing presence on YouTube, X, and TikTok under matching handles.

South African media entrepreneur who launched crypto's first TV show on CNBC and turned it into Crypto Banter, a daily live-streamed crypto channel. High-energy, and not without controversy.

Is a French-language YouTube channel and Substack publication covering banking, macro finance, and geopolitical-financial topics, with 14.8K subscribers and paid training content.

France is a French daily crypto-news brand across YouTube, podcast and Substack (~77K community), with an explicit long-term-investing focus rather than trading or technical analysis.

Is a French entrepreneur (2010), trader (2011) and crypto builder (2017). His ~88K French YouTube channel blends crypto, finance, economy and geopolitics, plus an English sister channel, X

Is a large US crypto YouTube brand with ~1.39M subscribers, formerly known as BitBoy Crypto. Daily news, altcoin and macro coverage, run as a multi-host team rather than solo.

Crypto trader, educator and head of "Trade with Renato," runs a paid technical-analysis course and community in four languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and Lithuanian.

Karo Babaian runs CryptoHeroes, one of the larger German-language crypto YouTube channels (~120K subs, 36M+ views since 2021), with a dedicated English sister channel and daily Bitcoin and altcoin cov

English-language crypto educator publishing as CryptoSensei / @Crypt0Senseii, with a paid $99/month membership, ~140K YouTube subscribers, and a Honolulu-based, XRP-focused signature beat.

Co-founder of Crypto Tips, one of crypto's oldest education channels, teaching since 2016. Known for calling the FTX collapse early and for a location-independent, self-sovereignty lifestyle.

Anonymous Japanese YouTuber (150K+ subscribers) documenting an all-in Bitcoin bet aimed at early retirement by 40, framed around a self-deprecating "corporate slave" backstory.

'Guy' of Coin Bureau, crypto's largest education channel. A former teacher in markets since 2013, known for calm, in-depth breakdowns of coins and macro for millions, minus the hype.

Young Dutch crypto influencer, born 2001, who built a 1.5M-follower X audience on fast, punchy Bitcoin and Ethereum calls. High-energy price commentary rather than deep analysis.

Moshin (もーしん) is a Japanese crypto investor and day trader who runs the daily-cadence YouTube channel "Moshin / ビットコイン" (150K subscribers) and an online trade school called "gloways," with a free comm

Is a Japanese crypto YouTuber, angel investor, and former Morgan Stanley hedge-fund trader and Citi investment banker who hosts what is described as Japan's largest crypto YouTube channel. He has been trading crypto since 2016, currently shares insights from Dubai, and works in Global Business Development at Backpack.

Is an English-language crypto YouTube channel and podcast hosted by Antoine Rousseaux (@AntoineRSX), with 62.6K subscribers blending memecoin and on-chain trading with comedy.

Is the brand of Michael Ionita, former VP of Engineering at DappRadar. He teaches crypto-portfolio automation and trend-following through YouTube, X (@mizi) and a capped masterclass.

Is a YouTube creator (33.5K subs) and quant researcher who builds algorithmic trading systems for options and futures. Founded WeTradeHQ (2018-2024) before joining CSCB Management.

Is a Dubai-based trader and English-language crypto/FX creator posting trading commentary as @helloitsroy. His YouTube channel (@RoyAnMainChannel) has 13.9K subscribers, active since May 2022.

The CryptoDad, the public persona of Rex Kneisley, is a US crypto educator focused on self-custody, hardware wallets, cold storage and long-term ownership rather than trading or speculation.

Travis Hoium runs Asymmetric Investing, a YouTube channel and newsletter finding stocks with 10x potential over the next decade. A former engineer and Motley Fool analyst, he runs a fully transparent

Is a German crypto portfolio-tracking and tax-reporting platform (Munich, 2012), used by 2.2M+ traders and accountants worldwide. Its YouTube channel is a corporate product feed, not a pe

Is a US personal-finance YouTuber with 500K-800K+ subscribers, founder of Investing Simple and Farmland Riches, and author of "From Side Hustle To Main Hustle To Millionaire". Forbes named him a "#1 Must Watch YouTube Channel For Making Money."

Is an English-language daily market analyst on YouTube with over 200K subscribers across his channels, and the founder of JCG Master Academy. He markets himself as a 24-year market veteran who has been publicly calling Bitcoin since 2012.

Is a US-based YouTube and X creator covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, altcoins, NFTs and online-money topics, with 136K subscribers and a referral-driven monetization model.

Is a Berlin-based Web3, NFT and AI coach, author of "Web3 ohne Bullsh*t," who runs "Lukas Hüttis - KI, Krypto & Web3 Tutorials" and co-hosts the music-NFT podcast "Digital Punks."

PhD engineer and founder of Into The Cryptoverse. One of crypto's most-followed quant voices, known for data-driven, unemotional analysis and Bitcoin cycle models over hype.

Is a US-based crypto YouTuber and full-time investor with 200K+ subscribers, known for turning job loss into a $1M+ YouTube business, life savings allocated to crypto.

Turkish crypto creator Erhan K, publishing daily videos covering crypto narratives and project interviews under the brand @ErhanKOfficial across YouTube and X. Active in the Istanbul / Turkish blockchain conference circuit, with content delivered primarily in Turkish.

Is an English-language cryptocurrency content creator and investor who hosts daily livestreams, project reviews, and interviews on YouTube, plus "The Jake Gagain Show" podcast on Spotify. He explicitly disclaims financial-advisor status and positions the brand as educational and entertainment-driven.

Chilean-born, Dubai-based software engineer turned full-time Bitcoin commentator, best known for urging his audience in 2013 to "just buy $1 of Bitcoin" at sub-dollar prices. His YouTube channel @davincij15 carries roughly 900K subscribers and a multi-cycle archive of macro-Bitcoin analysis.

Ben Crypto (@BenCryptoShow) is a Boston-based daily crypto YouTuber with 34.3K subscribers, specializing in altcoin deep-dives and undervalued coins. First-name brand, no public surname.

American crypto influencer turned NFT and DeFi builder. Runs the 635K-subscriber EllioTrades channel and co-founded SuperFarm and Neo Tokyo, projects he also promotes to his audience.

Is a US personal-finance YouTuber and real-estate investor whose main channel passed 5M subscribers in 2026. He covers budgeting, investing, real estate, and markets, with crypto appearing periodically rather than as a primary beat.

Is a US-based crypto YouTube channel and X brand run by Gustavo Fidalgo (@CoinTalkCEO), covering altcoin gems, market news and interviews. 14.8K on YouTube, 29.9K on X.

(Coin Engineer) is an Istanbul-based Turkish crypto research platform (2018): a team, not a solo creator, publishing Bitcoin, altcoin and market analysis across YouTube (~460K), Telegra

Selçuk Ergin ("Selcoin") is a Turkish economist-investor and one of Turkey's largest crypto and macro YouTubers (556K subscribers since 2018), and author of "The Key to the Golden Gate" on Bitcoin.

Oscar Ramos is an English-language crypto, DeFi and Web3 YouTuber (160k+ subscribers) who runs a proprietary crypto indicator, a private Patreon / Discord community, and a "The Beat" episodic series covering macro and altcoin themes including Solana memecoins and XRP-related events.

US-based investor, content creator and entrepreneur. President of Fluence (Web3 creator management) and co-founder of Crypto Strategy School, in addition to his YouTube channel.

Founder of the MCobanX channel, is a Turkish economist with 25+ years in finance and media (ex-Hürriyet, ex-Bitci research director), publishing data-driven Bitcoin, altcoin and macro an

("Altcoin Universe") is a Turkish-language crypto media and signals brand running a content site (altcoinevreni.com), a main Telegram group, paid trade and news Telegram channels, plus X and Instagram. The brand fronts as "Æ" with no named individual operator publicly visible.

Is a German crypto YouTube channel and community (altcoin-deutschland.com) built around exchange tutorials, trading guides and a free signal group, run under a brand name rather th

Is a Turkish crypto/AI YouTuber (~267K subs) who rose through NFT content and now centres his work on Hub AI Trader, an AI-powered trading platform, plus crypto and digital-income educatio

Canada-based crypto trader and analyst publishing daily crypto news, price-prediction and educational content as URKNINVESTS. Cross-listed as a Cryptocurrency Trader at Bitget per LinkedIn.

Is a US-based crypto and NFT content creator covering new projects, Web3 and AI tools, with project reviews and market takes across YouTube, X and Telegram under one brand handle.

English-speaking crypto YouTuber (157K subscribers) covering new blockchain projects, token launches, and sponsored reviews since 2017. Also a TRON DAO ambassador.

Is a Turkish-language crypto YouTuber with 161K+ verified subscribers, publishing daily token reviews on Web3, altcoins and early-stage gems. Active on X (@CryptoFurkanYT) and Telegram (

Turkish content creator, investor and crypto/AI enthusiast. Founder of Anqa Prime; his YouTube channel "Umut Aktu Kripto" covers cryptocurrency, metaverse, NFTs and mining, alongside a parallel persona as a career coach.

Classical chart pattern trader since 2019. Crypto, Forex, Gold & Nasdaq specialist. TradingView Editors' Pick. Clean analysis, pure price action. No indicators — just structure.

ICT & Smart Money trader from Cameroon. 6+ years full-time. $1K-10K flip specialist. Featured on TradingNut & Audacity Capital podcasts. Building trading academies across Central Africa.

Forex trader since 2019. Gold & EURUSD specialist. Multi-prop-firm certified (MyFundedFX, E8, Maven, QT). Discipline-first methodology. Mentor to traders worldwide.

Finished 3rd in the USIC 2024 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +39.6%, behind Brandi Archer (+90.7%) and Matthew Pryzby (+59.1%).

Fiji-born, MIT MBA, Fremont CA-based full-time trader Vikash Raniga finished 3rd in MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth in 2025 at +95.7%, and is 3rd again in 2026 Q1 at +36.4%.

Dr. Tom Doub of Arcadia Analytics in Tennessee — formerly a clinical psychologist on faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center — is 2nd in the USIC 2026 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +190.5% Q1.

Hong Kong-based equities trader Tin Chun Jimmy Li — public handle @tcjimmyli — leads the USIC 2026 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +396.6% Q1, the strongest single quarter on the Stock Division leaderboard.

Bangkok-based full-time trader Thawin Suksathaporn took 3rd in the USIC 2025 $20K-$1M Enhanced Growth Division at +299.4%, behind Tito Adhikary's all-time record and Bob Doviak's +857.3%.

CEO and lead trader of the Nighthawk Momentum Fund in Jupiter, Florida — finished +70% in MMVR $1M+ Stock 2025 and sits 2nd at +23.9% in 2026 Q1, after selling two prior companies (World Choice Travel to Travelocity for $50M, BeQuick Software to Banyan).

Of Bagley Capital Management in Bountiful, Utah is leading the USIC 2026 MMVR $1M+ Stock Division at +26.7% Q1, on the heels of a +61.6% full-year 2025 in the same division.

Long Beach-based educator and trader Matthew Pryzby — founder of Trading Experts — took 2nd in the USIC 2024 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +59.1%, behind Brandi Archer's +90.7%.

Hong Kong-based equities trader Judy Lai won the USIC 2024 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +449.1% — the same year her husband Law Wai-Sum (J Law) took MMVR $1M+ — making them the only known double-champion couple in USIC's forty-year history.

Toronto-based equities trader Jason Speziale is third in the USIC 2026 MMVR $1M+ Stock Division at +20.5% Q1, following a +42.5% finish in the same division in 2025.

German-born data engineer and Dataraum founder, based in Luxembourg after a year in New York. Took 3rd in the USIC 2024 $20K-$1M Enhanced Growth Division at +311%.

Chicago-based swing trader Deepak Uppal — University of Illinois MBA — finished 5th in USIC 2023 at +259.2% and 3rd in 2024 MMVR $1M+ Stock at +153.2%, on a published methodology of Cup & Handle / Bull Flag setups with strict 1% per-trade risk.

Took 2nd in the USIC 2025 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +108.3% — the highest non-record run in the same year Bob Weissman set the division's all-time +115.4% record.

Hong Kong-based equities trader Clement Ang finished 3rd in the MMVR $1M+ Stock Division of USIC 2025 at +140.4%, joining Law Wai-Sum and Christian Flanders on the top-division leaderboard.

Former professional poker player and competitive fencer turned Minervini-school equities trader, Christian Flanders took 2nd in USIC 2024 ($20K-$1M Stock) at +433.5%, then promoted up and finished 2nd again in 2025 MMVR ($1M+ Stock) at +167.5%.

Owner of a data engineering consulting firm in Montgomery, Texas, won the USIC 2024 $20K-$1M Enhanced Growth Division at +482.6% — leading the division wire-to-wire from Q1.

Chicago-based full-time trader Brandi Archer — formerly in real estate, with a law degree from Chicago-Kent — won the USIC 2024 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +90.7%.

Director of Operations at Minervini Private Access for more than twenty years, Bob Weissman won the USIC 2025 Money Manager Verified Ratings $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +115.4% — an all-time record for that division.

Dallas-based trader Bob Doviak — a USIC competitor from the original 1980s era — returned to the championship and took 2nd in 2025 $20K-$1M Enhanced Growth at +857.3%, after holding the division lead mid-year at +1,110.1%.

Born in Izmir, Turkey and now running Euclid Technologies — a Toronto-based hedge fund — CFA charterholder Baran Kayhan is 2nd in the USIC 2026 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +52.3% Q1, after a +91.1% audit in the smaller-account EG tier in 2025.

San Diego-based full-time trader Anindo Majumdar — who quit his engineering role at Cisco Systems in 2006 to trade — took 2nd in the USIC 2024 $20K-$1M Enhanced Growth Division at +389.3%.

Equities trader Adrian Law — public brand WhiteBear.trading / 白熊交易 — finished 3rd in the USIC 2025 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +264%, behind Martin Luk's +969.8% world record and Rajnus Capital LLC's +382%.

IIT Delhi Chemical Engineering student who won the 2023 WorldQuant IQC with Team Guava, the only Indian team to claim the global title outright.

Nguyễn Đức Khánh Trình, a Mathematics Economics student at National Economics University in Hanoi — won the inaugural 2022 WorldQuant Global Alphathon, the competition WorldQuant has since absorbed into its International Quant Championship lineage.

A second-year B.Tech Engineering Physics student at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, finished second at the 2025 WorldQuant International Quant Championship — the only Indian among the top three.

Then a B.Tech student in Mathematics and Computing at IIT Delhi, won the 2023 WorldQuant International Quant Championship as one half of Team Guava — the only Indian team to take IQC outright.

Industrial Engineering undergraduate at UNIST, won the 2025 WorldQuant International Quant Championship — the first Korean to take the global title in the event's five-year history.

Applied Computer Science graduate of Chuka University, Kenya. Placed third at IQC 2025 in Singapore — the highest finish ever by a Kenyan in IQC history.

A Senior AI Researcher from Hsinchu, Taiwan, took bronze at the 2025 WorldQuant International Quant Championship in Singapore, representing NYCU and Taiwan among the world's top quant

Ukrainian futures trader Taras Sviatun — co-founder of Trading Volume Terminal (TVT) and instructor on the "Trade Like a Pro" course — finished 4th in the Robbins WCTC Global Cup Futures Division 2022-2023 at +55.7% with 15+ years of experience across CME, NYSE, MICEX, and Forex.

Turkish crypto KOL Kemal Hiçyılmaz — known publicly as Crypto Kemal — founded the Ninja Traders TR community (100K+ members since 2019) and led the Ninja Squad team to 3rd place at Bitfinex Trade Masters Türkiye 2023, the first live Turkish crypto trading championship.

American options trader Utsarga "Tito" Adhikary — Harvard postdoctoral cancer researcher — won USIC 2025 at +2,115.1%, the highest single-year return in the championship's 42-year history; YTD 2026 (Q1) at +68.9%.

Seattle-based aerospace engineer Omar Barkawi (`@OhMyOhMar`) — Blue Origin systems engineer with an MS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute — is currently the top-ranked discretionary trader in the USIC 2026 $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +798.0% Q1 YTD.

Hong Kong-based swing trader Martin Luk — age 23 — set the world record in the USIC Stock Division in 2025 at +969.8% and is currently top-tier in the 2026 $1M+ Stock Division at +96.3% Q1, having promoted up from the $20K-$1M division.

Bay-Area-based computer scientist Heather Qi — Cornell MS, originally from China — currently sits at top-3 in the USIC 2026 $1M+ Stock Division at +186.0% Q1 YTD. Long-only equity discipline on a real-money account.

Miami CPA. Born in Ukraine, raised in Cuba. Four consecutive years on the USIC top leaderboard: +108% (2023), +219% (2024), +239% (2025), +136% Q1 2026.

Taiwanese-American DeFi figure Jeffrey Huang — known on X as Machi Big Brother — has been Hyperliquid's most-watched ETH-long whale across 2024-2025, with public on-chain losses cumulative near $71M and 145 liquidations after the October 2025 crash.

Builder Kevin Chen took first place at Hyperliquid's Korea Hackathon in September 2025 with Wildmeta, an AI-driven trading-assistant app — having been publicly liquidated for ~$2M on Hyperliquid earlier the same day.

UK-based pseudonymous Hyperliquid trader James Wynn (`@JamesWynnReal`) has been the most-watched whale on the DEX through 2024-2025 — cumulative ~$16.8B trading volume, a legendary $7K → $25M PEPE spot run, and a public May 2025 liquidation on a $1.25B BTC long at 40x leverage.

Italian algorithmic futures trader Luigi Piva — born Bologna 1968, London-based 2004-2012, founder of Quantlab (2013) — won ITCup 2011 (+60.74%), placed 2nd in 2008 (+37.56%) and 3rd in 2019 (+35.46%).

Italian retail trader Luigi Pegoraro — Veneto-based covered-warrants and certificates specialist — won ITCup back-to-back in 2019 (+85.24%) and 2020 (+64.76%) and competes alongside cousin Daniele and son Nicolò, a recurring Pegoraro-family podium across multiple editions.

Italian retail trader Emilio (Emiliano) Cortese won the ITCup main championship in 2009 and returned fifteen years later to win the Trading Bootcamp 2024 virtual prelude at +8.13% on a €100k simulated account.

An Italian private banker from Reggio Calabria, finished 2nd overall at ITCup 2024 (+215%) and won the Certificates title (+210%), trading leveraged Vontobel certificates on a daily

Italian stock-picking trader Daniele Ledda — born 1983 in Torre del Greco, Naples — won ITCup twice (2022 with ~+67%, 2024 with +551% on a €2,000 real-money account). Two championships in three years on Italian mid/small/micro-cap discretionary selection.

Italian systems trader Antonio Carriere — born 1975, ex-naval officer, runs a bar in Francavilla Fontana (Puglia) as a cover for his systematic trading work — won ITCup XXVI in 2023 (+95.14%) and placed third in 2022; speaker at YouFinance 2024.

Italian retail trader Andrea Orazietti won ITCup XXIV (2021) at +34.84% in under two months on a real-money account, plus that year's Trading Bootcamp (virtual prelude) — the rare double-win in a single championship season.

Italian retail trader Achille Massimo Capecce — aeronautical engineer from Termoli, Molise — won the first three editions of ITCup (1999 +600%, 2000 +1700%, 2001 +1800%). Scalper using technical analysis on Italian stocks and index derivatives, widely regarded as the GOAT of Italian retail trading.

Australia-based futures trader Sadanand Kalasabail is a two-time Robbins WCTC winner — 2019 Futures Champion at 266% and 2022-23 Global Cup Futures Champion at 1,138.1%, the largest return of the multi-year era.

Is a Czech-born futures spreads trader and closed-end hedge fund manager who won the 2018 World Cup Trading Championship at +257.9%, the only female champion in over three decades.

American retail futures trader Kevin McCormick won the 2021 Robbins World Cup Futures Championship with a 253.8% return — the first US winner of the WCTC since 2015. Direct Larry Williams methodological lineage, traded around an iPhone-app development day job in Phoenix.

American aerospace-engineer-turned-systematic-trader Kevin J. Davey won the 2006 Robbins World Cup Futures Trading Championship with 148% and placed 2nd in 2005 (107%) and 2007 (112%); author of the Wiley-published *Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems*.

Vietnamese trader who captained team **sotaytaichinh.vn** to the championship of OKEx's third Elite Trading Team Contest in August 2020 — out of 231 teams and 8,082 individual traders, on USDT-margined perpetuals.

Brazilian quantitative trader running the Synaptica Quant brand — MetaTrader 5 algo-development focus, self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant.

Brazilian markets veteran Roney Albert — known as Frajola — has 44 years of trading experience including the BM&F open-outcry floor era; founded Economy Class and Oficina do Trader; appeared as a guest commentator on BTG's Trader Talks during the Copa BTG Trader 2025 cycle.

Brazilian endurance athlete Regis Brito — six-time Ironman finisher, sub-three-hour marathoner — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Instagram brand is athletics-first; trading link visible only via the Copa-orbit association.

Brazilian retail day-trader Regiane Morais — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Instagram bio categorises her as "Mercado Financeiro".

Brazilian retail trader — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Public information minimal beyond the Instagram handle.

Brazilian day-trader and educator André Machado, known publicly as Ogro de Wall Street, is a 22-year-veteran of the mini-index / mini-dollar floor and ran a featured-guest seat on BTG's Trader Talks during Copa BTG Trader 2025.

Brazilian retail trader — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Public information minimal beyond the Instagram handle.

Brazilian retail trader Kesley Glenn — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Public information minimal beyond the Instagram handle and display name.

Vereador of Cotriguaçu, Mato Grosso. Self-taught trader, Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Started at Sicredi in 2016. No courses, no mentor — only YouTube and trial and error.

Brazilian retail trader Felipe Nathan — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Instagram bio describes him as "Especialista em Investimentos" (Investment Specialist).

Brazilian retail trader Estefano Santos — self-disclosed Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Public information minimal beyond the Instagram handle and display name.

Korean live streamer Byeon Sang-hyeok — Satto — captained the second-largest squad at Bybit's WSOT 2022 and runs a 360K-subscriber YouTube channel that pairs Lineage gameplay with live high-leverage bitcoin trades.

Japanese crypto trader Mr. Ken — Top Captain at Bybit's WSOT 2023 — runs bilingual JP/EN trading channels from Bangkok and built his following on calling Bitcoin's August 2024 drop from $70K to $50K in real time.

South Korean crypto perpetuals trader Ahn Si-hu — better known as Maeuknam ("the man who makes a hundred million a month") — won Bybit's WSOT in 2020 and 2021, captained the largest squad at WSOT 2022, and runs a YouTube channel built on full-transparency live trades.

South Korean live streamer Kang Eun-ho — "Financier Kang Eun-ho" — finished second at Bybit's WSOT 2021 with a 1,774.84% team PnL; he runs the AfreecaTV / SOOP channel cocoa898, peaking at over 27,000 concurrent viewers.

Anonymous South Korean perpetuals trader who won three categories at Bybit's inaugural WSOT in September 2020 — individual PnL (5,242.02%), USDT Solo Throwdown (4,974.22%), and was on the winning W.T.C team — and has stayed handle-only since.

Pseudonymous crypto-perps trader who captained Team Jalapeño to 2nd place at Bybit's WSOT 2020 with a personal +3,956.56% PnL, and returned to captain the same troop at WSOT 2024.

Canadian poker pro Mike "Timex" McDonald captained the "Live Traders Suck" troop to a third-place finish at Bybit's inaugural WSOT 2020 — the only podium captain at the event with a non-trading day job.

Kazakhstan crypto trader and ICTC 2025 finalist with ~500K followers. Former Bybit insider turned independent, on the side of traders. Comeback story: lost $200K in 2019, rebuilt 5x by 2021.

(Eugene Loza) is a Ukrainian crypto trader and analyst with 138K+ TradingView followers, a 2025 TradingView Wizard and ICTC 2025 bronze medalist, founder of EXCAVO and CEO of Trading Tournament

Danish, UAE-based crypto trader and educator known by the handle Coinvo. ICTC 2025 finalist who placed the tournament's single largest winning trade (+12,249 USDT on ETH-PERP).

43-year-old metalworker from São Vicente, São Paulo who won R$1M at the inaugural Copa BTG Trader 2025 — Brazil's first live-show day-trading championship.