Emilio Cortese is one of the few ITCup champions whose competitive record spans the championship's pre-2010 and post-2020 generations. He took the main XI edition in 2009 — the dataset for that year's exact return isn't fully indexed but the Hall of Fame confirms the title — and fifteen years later he returned to win the Trading Bootcamp 2024, the championship's virtual prelude, at +8.13% on a €100,000 simulated account. The fifteen-year span between titles is the kind of durability that distinguishes ITCup's recurring podium names from the one-off-bull-market champions who don't return.

The public footprint outside the ITCup organisers' write-ups is thin. No verified X / LinkedIn / personal site surfaces. The 2024 Bootcamp win was the ITCup organisers' own announcement, and the back-reference to the 2009 main title is from the championship's Hall of Fame. Outreach realistic only via Borsa&Finanza's championship channels. The page exists in this bucket as one of the data points showing that ITCup's repeat-champion phenomenon (Capecce, Ledda, Pegoraro, Piva, Cortese) is a structural feature of the championship, not an exception.