Andrea Marenda
🇨🇭Switzerland· Zug
Where I'm from you don't get a prize for coming second.
Marenda's 2024 emergence, 1st place in the Quarterly Forex Q4 with 111.2%, set up a sustained run. He took 3rd in the 2025 main Futures division at 155.9%, plus Q2 (56.2%) and Q3 (91.4%) podiums in the Quarterly Forex format, opened 2026 with another Q1 podium (32.6%), and topped the 2025-26 Global Cup Championship of Forex Trading standings at 207.7%, pending final audit. The cross-division podium (Futures and Forex within one cycle) is rare in the modern championship and puts him in the same statistical bracket as Serghey Magala and Nikolas Pareschi.
The biography behind the results is institutional rather than retail. Marenda is an Italian from Vicenza in the Veneto region, now based in Zug, Switzerland, which explains the inconsistent country flags in Robbins social-media coverage. He came up through corporate finance advisory and planning roles in Veneto, moved into trading and portfolio management at Pragma11, spent two years as a trader at the HTTS High Tech Trading System Fund in Geneva, and since 2024 has been a cross-asset trader at Swissblock Technologies AG in Zug. His education includes programs at SDA Bocconi in private equity and venture capital and at IESE Business School. He is active on LinkedIn, where he posts championship standings to a following in the low thousands and sums up his approach in one line: "Where I'm from you don't get a prize for coming second."
For trading-tournaments.com his profile matters twice over. The cross-division podium pattern is structurally rare in the modern WCTC, and he is that unusual case of an active champion with a full-time institutional seat who competes on the side and has built no retail brand around the credential: no courses, no signals, no subscription product. That makes him a prime candidate for primary-source interview content rather than recycled press.
