Lorenzo Misino
🇮🇹Italy· Bisceglie
Won the 2021 WCTC Forex Championship at 405% — while still working day-shifts at the family clothing store in Bisceglie.
Misino is the closest thing the modern WCTC has to a folk hero: a clothing merchant from Bisceglie, Puglia (population ~55,000), who beat the global systematic-forex field in 2021 with a 405.5% return — nearly double the 2nd-place result (Patrick Nill's 229%). He entered trading via cryptocurrency in the 2017-2018 cycle, then migrated to systematic forex, studying at night after work at the family store. The championship year was his public emergence — extensive Italian-language coverage by Il Sole 24 Ore, FinanzaOnline, BlueRating, and regional Puglia press followed the win.
His methodology is fully systematic — automated trading robots designed to open and close positions on programmed logic across major forex pairs, with no discretionary intervention during the championship. The 405.5% return makes him the largest single-year forex result in WCTC history, and one of the most striking examples of championship-grade results being achievable by a non-institutional, non-funded trader running self-built code from a small Italian town.
He has remained largely private after the 2021 win, with no commercial education business, no podcast circuit, and no consistent social-media presence (unusual for a modern champion). Local Italian press is the main public record. For trading-tournaments.com, his profile matters because the 2021 result is the largest WCTC forex return on record, the back-story is the cleanest "private retail trader beats the institutional systematic field" narrative the championship has produced in the modern era, and Italian-language outreach via his hometown press is realistic.
