The U.S. is the densest trading-tournament market on Earth — deepest content surface area in the entire site. The legacy anchor is Robbins World Cup Trading Championships (43rd edition 2026, annually since 1983) plus the U.S. Investing Championship (USIC, our headline Verified Ratings ingestion). The **university / B-school competition cluster is the killer SEO asset** — at least 18 high-prestige trading competitions identified: UChicago Trading Competition (UTC, 14th annual, Apr 10-11 2026), Traders@MIT, Stevens HFTC, Berkeley Trading Competition ($20K cash, Feb-Mar), Cornell Big Red Investing Competition + Cornell Quant Fund, CMU Tepper, Wharton, Stanford GSB, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Baruch College MFE. **Quant-firm pipeline contests** are a unique US density driver: Jane Street Estimathon (multi-city annual at MIT/Princeton/Berkeley/Simons), Citadel Securities Datathons (regional + Women's), IMC Prosperity, Optiver FutureFocus, CME University Trading Challenge. **Kalshi's $1B Perfect Bracket Challenge (Mar 2026, 10M+ entries)** is the first major regulated US event-contract tournament. **Polymarket** re-entered US Dec 2025 via QCEX acquisition (CFTC-registered) — public leaderboard live, formal contest watch H2 2026. **Futures prop is the dominant US cash-prize layer**: TopstepX, Apex Trader Funding (Apex 4.0 eliminated subscriptions Mar 2026), MyFundedFutures, Earn2Trade, TradeDay, OneUp Trader. Kraken Pro Futures Leaderboard is the lone US-eligible crypto PnL leaderboard.
Two parallel tournament cultures: (1) the **legacy real-money championship canon** anchored by WCTC + USIC (multi-decade, audited statements, prestige) and (2) the **university / B-school competition pipeline** that feeds IB / prop / quant recruiting at Jane Street, Citadel, Susquehanna, Optiver, IMC. Retail platforms (Robinhood, Webull, Public, Schwab, Fidelity, Tastytrade, Crypto.com US, eToro US) run **zero pure PnL leaderboard contests** for 2026 — only referral bonuses, deposit matches, and randomized sweepstakes. US-licensed crypto exchanges (Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Bitstamp US) run sweepstakes + volume promos with one exception: Kraken Pro Futures Leaderboard ranks top 50 by realized + unrealized PnL on a rolling 7-day window. Prediction markets are uniquely US: Kalshi + Polymarket are the contest watchtargets for 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%.
Anthony Pompliano ("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.
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.
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%.
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.
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%.
Brandon Frenchak, 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.
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.
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%.
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.
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
David Forehand 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.
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.
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.
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.
Graham Stephan 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.
Gregg Sciabica — 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.
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.
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.
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
Jesse Stine 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.
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.
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*.
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.
Kunal Desai 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.
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.
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.
American S&P futures day-trader Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz won the 1984 US Investing Championship (Robbins WCTC's lineal ancestor) and a 1992 Robbins Futures title; profiled in Jack Schwager's foundational 1989 book *Market Wizards*.
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%.
Michael Goode 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.
Michael Hudson ("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.
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.
Nathan Michaud 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.
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.
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
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.
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%).
Roland Wolf 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.
Ron Bagley 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.
Ross Cameron 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.
Ryan Scribner 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."
Steve McIntosh — 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).
Steven Dux 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.
Tim Grittani 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.
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.
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.
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,
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%.
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%.
Warren Straub finished 3rd in the USIC 2024 MMVR $1M+ Enhanced Growth Division at +39.6%, behind Brandi Archer (+90.7%) and Matthew Pryzby (+59.1%).
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.
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How many trading traders from United States are in this directory?
51 published trader profiles. Each profile links to source-verified tournament results, public social channels, and career achievements. New profiles are added as they clear our editorial review — typically 3-5 business days after submission.
Who curates the United States trader directory?
The trading-tournaments.com editorial team. Every profile is fact-checked against the trader's tournament sources (exchange announcements, championship archives, brokerage-audited records). Only traders with a verifiable public result appear here. Anonymous, unverified claims are rejected.
Can I submit a trader from United States to this directory?
Yes — traders (or people with permission from a trader) can submit a profile at /traders/submit. Include a proof link (tournament result page, exchange leaderboard, championship result URL), the trader's public socials, and a short bio. Editorial review runs 3-5 business days and either publishes or requests clarification.
What counts as a "verified" trader in this directory?
A verified trader carries an independently-audited performance record — typically a broker-audited annual return (Robbins World Cup, U.S. Investing Championship), a third-party track-record verification service (MMVR, Verify My Trade), or a fully-transparent on-chain record. Self-reported returns don't qualify. The ✓ Verified badge on a profile card indicates this status.