Kevin McCormick spent two decades in retail futures while working a tech day job that started with early iPhone app development, and in 2021 he took the Robbins World Cup of Futures Trading with a 253.8% return — the first US-based winner of the championship in six years. The methodology that ran the year is publicly documented and openly cited: Larry Williams' classic systems — pre-1987 vintage — combined with Tom DeMark's Sequential 9/13 and Combo indicators. Williams trained McCormick directly, putting him in the same coaching tree as Andrea Unger (2008-2012) and the Unger Academy generation that followed.

The framing he keeps coming back to on his YouTube channel — Big Picture Investing With Kevin McCormick / @TradingChampion — is the line that explains the day-job-plus-trading life: I'm just a guy with a day job who learned from Larry — the methods are public, but the discipline isn't. That positioning is unusual for a modern Robbins champion: the recent winners are mostly institutional-adjacent (Carlile, Scherman) or academy-trained (Serafini, Zacek). McCormick is the retail-with-Williams-lineage version of the modern Champion, and the most directly outreach-able 2020s winner — active X handle, YouTube channel, accessible from one DM.