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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.

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

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.

Yuri Pesic (Yuri Trader, @yuripesic) is a Brazilian Portuguese-language crypto creator focused on DeFi passive income, liquidity pools, and anonymous trading strategies including No-KYC and cold walle

Thomas Boleto is a UK-based full-time trader with 20+ years of experience. YouTube 6.4K subscribers, 2,100+ videos. Bitcoin TA, news and education. 105K+ Udemy students across 15+ courses.

Brazilian Portuguese crypto YouTube channel with 112K subscribers and 546 videos. Posts three times a week covering crypto, DeFi, and trading guides for the Brazilian market.

Nhat Huy is the founder of TIPS CRYPTO, a Vietnamese crypto education and signals community active since 2017 with 100K+ members. OKX Partner, based in Hanoi.

Portuguese-language YouTube channel teaching airdrops and DeFi in a simplified way, hosted by a creator known publicly only as TATO. Content is educational with a standard "not financial advice" framing.

Dutch family who sold everything in 2016 to go all-in on Bitcoin. Living nomadic across 40+ countries ever since, no bank accounts, no house. Subject of an Amazon Prime documentary.

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.

Mathias Alcantara runs Tech Negócios, a Brazilian YouTube channel with 36.6K subscribers and 213 videos covering crypto exchange bonuses, affiliate campaigns and ways to earn money online.

Solana memecoin trader and educator with 14.6K YouTube subscribers. Runs the Trenches Discord community and covers pump.fun trading, RSI strategies, and memecoin masterclasses in English.

English-language Web3 content creator rebuilding under @TOMMY8io after losing his original account. YouTube 2.6K subscribers, 143 videos. Covers memecoins, NFTs and crypto education.

English-language crypto YouTuber (@WhatIsCrypto96, 7,800 subs) and memecoin caller running a free Telegram call channel (WicTrades). Claimed runners include $BEAST 65x and $MOANER 41x.

Brazilian financial-education YouTube channel by Prof. Adenilson Alves. 56K subscribers, 1,300 videos. Covers crypto, equities, FIIs and financial literacy for retail Brazilian investors.

Is a French Gold and crypto trader with 147K Instagram followers. Daily live trading at midday on YouTube. Featured on TEDx, BFM TV, Forbes and Le Figaro.

Brazilian Portuguese-language crypto educator behind the "Curso Viver de Cripto" course and a paid mentoring program. Operates a YouTube channel and a Telegram group, with the personal site at willgrazioli.com.br.

Multilingual crypto trader and educator based in Marbella. YouTube 286K subscribers, 19K videos. Covers crypto, geopolitics, macro and Bitcoin in Portuguese, English, Spanish and Lithuanian.

S is a multi-asset technical-analysis service active since 2017, publishing Elliott Wave based Bitcoin and altcoin analysis across YouTube (@STA_Solutions) and X (@STASolutions1). The brand appears to be operated by the "Schulz Team".

X-native crypto caller (@Winalldayyyy) focused on memecoin entries with publicly claimed multi-x runners. Runs a paid Whop community and a Discord, with on-chain activity exposed via Axiom.trade.

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.

Turkish crypto YouTuber based in China, 267K subscribers. Founder of Hub AI Trader, a free AI-powered trading platform. Content in Turkish on crypto, AI, and online income.

Canada-based crypto trader publishing daily content as URKNINVESTS. YouTube 7.3K subscribers, 546 videos. Crypto news, price predictions and market analysis. Bitget trader.

Turkish crypto and AI YouTuber with 150K subscribers. Founder of Anqa Prime, a Dubai-based career coaching company. Runs two channels: @Umut-Aktu and @UmutAktuKripto.

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, clinical psychologist turned Founder and CIO of Arcadia Analytics, finished 2nd in the USIC 2026 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +190.5% Q1.

Hong Kong-based equities trader Tin Chun Jimmy Li (@tcjimmyli) leads the USIC 2026 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +396.6% Q1, the strongest single quarter on the 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 run and Bob Doviak's +857.3%.

CEO of Nighthawk Momentum Fund in Jupiter FL, finished +70% in MMVR $1M+ Stock 2025 and sits 2nd at +23.9% in 2026 Q1, after two prior company exits totaling $50M+.

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%.

Prague-based equities trader Leoš Mikulka, former professional footballer for the Czech Republic national team, finished 3rd in the USIC 2024 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +409.6%.

Won the USIC 2024 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +449.1%, the same year her husband Law Wai-Sum won MMVR $1M+: the only double-champion couple in USIC's forty-year history.

Of Toronto closed 2025 at +42.5% in the MMVR $1M+ Stock Division and sits 3rd in 2026 Q1 at +20.5%, the only non-US name on the institutional-tier podium.

Jason Speziale of Toronto closed 2025 at +42.5% in the MMVR $1M+ Stock Division and sits 3rd in 2026 Q1 at +20.5%, the only non-US name on the institutional-tier podium.

Chicago swing trader. USIC 2023 top 5 at +259.2%. MMVR 2024 $1M+ Division 3rd at +153.2%. Cup and Handle specialist. 1% max risk. 3:1 reward to 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.

Poker pro turned Minervini-school equities trader. Christian Flanders took 2nd in USIC 2024 at +433.5%, then moved up to the $1M+ tier and finished 2nd again in 2025 MMVR at +167.5%.

CEO of Frenchak Consulting LLC 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 and holding 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, won the USIC 2025 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +115.4%, an all-time record for the division.

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

CFA charterholder and EuclidTech co-founder Baran Kayhan posted +91.1% in the USIC 2025 smaller-account EG tier, then promoted to MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth and is sitting 2nd at +52.3% Q1 in 2026.

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%.

Full-time day trader Adrian Law (白熊交易, WhiteBear.trading) finished 3rd in the USIC 2025 $20K-$1M Stock Division at +264%, behind Martin Luk's +969.8% world record and Rajnus Capital's +382%.

Won the 2023 WorldQuant IQC as one half of Team Guava, the only Indian team to take the global title outright. B.Tech Chemical Engineering with CS minor at IIT Delhi.

Nguyễn Đức Khánh Trinh, Mathematics Economics graduate of NEU Hanoi, won the 2022 WorldQuant Global Alphathon beating 14,000 competitors to claim first place.

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.

IIT Delhi graduate (Mathematics and Computing) who won the 2023 WorldQuant IQC as Team Guava, clearing 30,000+ contestants. Now a WorldQuant Research Consultant and 0DTE options trader.

An 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.

At 22, John Tingoi of Chuka University in rural Kenya placed third at the 2025 WorldQuant IQC, the first Kenyan to reach the global podium in the championship's history.

Of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan tied for third place at the 2025 WorldQuant International Quant Championship in Singapore.

Ukrainian. 4th place at Robbins WCTC Global Cup Futures 2022-2023 at +55.7%. Co-founder of Trading Volume Terminal (TVT). 15+ years across CME, NYSE, MICEX, Forex.

Istanbul. Founded Ninja Traders TR (100K+ members, 2019). Led Ninja Squad to 3rd at Bitfinex Trade Masters Türkiye 2023. Founder of Ninja Squad NFT and @ninjanewstr. 42K Instagram.

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%.

Blue Origin systems engineer in Seattle. #1 human-discretionary trader in USIC 2026 Q1 Enhanced Growth Division at +798.0%. Trades options on the side

Hong Kong swing trader, age 23. World record holder in the USIC $20K–$1M Stock Division at +969.8% in 2025. Now competing in the $1M+ division at +96.3% Q1 2026.

Cornell-educated. SF Bay Area. Top-3 in the USIC 2026 $1M+ Stock Division at +186.0% Q1. Long-only equity on a real-money account. One of the few women on the top-tier leaderboard.

Miami CPA and CFA candidate. Born Ukraine, raised Cuba. Four straight USIC top-leaderboard years: +108% (2023), +218% (2024), +239% (2025), +135% Q1 2026.

Jeffrey Huang (Machi Big Brother). Taiwan. Hip-hop founder, DeFi co-founder, Hyperliquid whale with $71M cumulative loss in 2025. Now a judge on Shark Tank Taiwan.

Builder. Won 1st place at Hyperliquid Korea Hackathon (Sept 2025) with Wildmeta, an AI trading assistant for Hyperliquid users. Was liquidated for $2M on the same platform that morning.

UK pseudonymous whale. $7K PEPE to $25M, $1.25B BTC liquidation in May 2025. Claims $87M in 70 days leverage trading. Founder of WYNN.IO. 478K followers on X.

Bologna-born. CQF. ITCup champion 2011 (+60.74%), podium 2008 and 2019. 20 years building systematic futures strategies.

Veneto. Covered-warrants specialist. ITCup champion 2019 (+85.24%) and 2020 (+64.76%). Son Nicolò and cousin Daniele also compete. The only trading family dynasty in Italian retail.

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.

Reggio Calabria banking professional. ITCup XXVII 2nd overall at +215.07%, Certificates sub-category winner at +210.16%. Speaker at Investing Napoli 2025. LinkedIn verified.

Naples. Mid/small/micro-cap stock picker. ITCup champion 2022 (+67%) and 2024 (+551%) on a €2,000 real-money account. The only modern back-to-back ITCup champion.

Ex-naval officer, bar owner, Puglia. Built a semi-automatic oil futures system that won ITCup XXVI 2023 at +95.14%. 3rd place 2022. Speaker at YouFinance 2024.

Italian retail trader. Won both the ITCup XXIV 2021 main championship (+34.84%) and the Trading Bootcamp virtual prelude in the same season. The double in one year suggests system, not luck.

Aeronautical engineer from Termoli, Molise. Won the first three ITCup editions: 1999 (+600%), 2000 (+1700%), 2001 (+1800%). The only three-peat in Italian real-money championship history.

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.

Czech systematic futures trader Petra Ilona Zacek won the 2018 Robbins World Cup Futures Championship with 257.9% — a former Prague Stock Exchange floor trader who transitioned to retail algo through Unger Academy.

American retail trader who won the 2021 Robbins WCTC at 253.8% while keeping his iPhone dev day job. Direct Larry Williams student. First US winner since 2015.

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-3h marathoner, former Army Special Ops officer, and Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Creator of the Discipline First method.

Brazilian trader and 5PI partner Regiane Morais, Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Ten years in Bovespa and futures markets, Price Action specialist. Entrepreneur and former family business CFO.

Brazilian retail trader Pablo Luiz from Belo Horizonte, Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Trading background and instrument focus unknown beyond the Instagram handle.

André Machado, known as Ogro de Wall Street, left Microsoft to trade full-time. 22-year mini-index veteran, ANBIMA Top Trader 2022, and Trader Talks guest during Copa BTG Trader 2025.

Is a CEA-certified trader and content producer at Nelogica, with two years at Toro Investimentos and an MBA at USP Fundace. Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant from São Paulo.

Brazilian retail trader from Juiz de Fora, MG. Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Trades mini-index, develops trading robots, and studies AI. Runs her own micropigmentation studio alongside an active t

Brazilian financial educator and economics graduate Kesley Glenn, postgraduate in financial education and Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Self-described trader in construction.

Brazilian trader and city councillor Jônata Cavalcante from Cotriguaçu, Mato Grosso. Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant. Father of Nicollas and Nadine.

Brazilian investment specialist Felipe Nathan, partner at Mosaico Investimentos and BTG Pactual advisor. Ranked 19th in BTG Pactual in September 2025. Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant.

Brazilian trader and educator Estefano Santos, founder of X-Trader Academy and creator of the Relógio de Confirmação method for Nasdaq futures. Over 1,000 students. Copa BTG Trader 2025 participant.

Competed in Copa BTG Trader 2025, one of Brazil's largest retail trading tournaments, and documented the experience publicly on Instagram.

Korean streamer Satto captained the second-largest squad at Bybit's WSOT 2022. His 360K-subscriber YouTube channel mixes Lineage W gameplay with live bitcoin perp 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 perp trader Ahn Si-hu, known as Maeuknam, won Bybit's WSOT 2021 and leads a 225K-subscriber YouTube channel built on full-transparency live trades across wins and losses.

South Korean live streamer Kang Eun-ho finished second at Bybit's WSOT 2021 with a 1,774.84% team PnL and runs the SOOP channel cocoa898, which peaked at 27,272 concurrent viewers in March 2024.

Anonymous South Korean trader who triple-won Bybit's inaugural WSOT 2020: individual PnL (5,242%), USDT Solo Throwdown (4,974%), and W.T.C team champion. No real name published 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 first WSOT 2020, the only podium captain at the event with a non-trading day job.

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.