Antonio Carriere
🇮🇹Italy· Francavilla Fontana, Brindisi (Puglia)
Former naval officer who runs a bar in Puglia and built the automated system that won Italy's longest-running real-money championship.
Antonio Carriere's day job is running a bar in Francavilla Fontana, a town in the Puglia interior near Brindisi. The bar, by his own description in the YouFinance 2024 speaker bio, is the cover for the real work — the design and live-testing of automated and semi-automatic trading systems. In autumn 2023 one of those systems — a semi-auto strategy on oil futures — produced fifty-one percent of his total return through ITCup XXVI's six-week window. The audit closed at +95.14% on a €2,000 starting capital. The award ceremony was at Palazzo Mezzanotte, Borsa Italiana's headquarters in Milan.
He came in from outside finance — first a naval officer, then back in Puglia running the bar, then the systematic-trading work compounded into a third-place ITCup finish in 2022 and the outright XXVI championship in 2023. The pre-championship career gives the bio its texture: military discipline, small-business operator daily routine, and a side-project that quietly turned into a championship-winning portfolio of systems. The trade journal he keeps on the YouTube interview from the Educazione Finanziaria 2024 channel is one of the few public surfaces showing how he thinks about position sizing and system robustness.
The speaking trail post-2023 has been the most visible public surface — YouFinance Investi Bene 2024 speaker slot, follow-up media around the Palazzo Mezzanotte ceremony, and the long-form Educazione Finanziaria 2024 interview. No X / LinkedIn / Instagram surfaces under his name match against the championship record, which makes him the most outreach-able ITCup champion of the 2020s purely because of the speaker-circuit footprint — the YouFinance contact channel is open.