Luigi Pegoraro

In October 2019 Luigi Pegoraro held two call-style covered warrants on Netflix through a multi-week move that produced eighty percent of his eventual ITCup championship return. The XXII edition closed at +85.24% on a €3,000 starting capital, won outright; his blog write-up at the time noted only one single loss greater than ten percent across the entire competition — the rest of the run was discipline, not luck. The 2020 follow-on — ITCup XXIII, the COVID edition — closed at +64.76% on certificates, taking him back-to-back. Cousin Daniele Pegoraro finished second in the same 2020 edition at +37.67%, making the Pegoraro family the rare household to occupy the top two spots in an Italian real-money championship.

The instrument focus is unusual inside the broader Italian retail scene — covered warrants on US tech (Alphabet, Tesla, Netflix, Facebook) plus warrants on gold and the FtseMib, instead of the equity stock-picking discipline that dominates Capecce's and Ledda's titles. The risk discipline is the part the ITCup write-ups keep coming back to: position sizing tight enough that only one losing trade in the 2019 edition exceeded a 10% drawdown of the day. Son Nicolò Pegoraro won the summer 2019 sub-edition at +68.09% the same year his father took the main title, and finished 4th at +29.44% in the autumn main. The Pegoraros are the closest Italian retail trading has to a competing family dynasty.

The public surface is almost entirely closed. The family avoids stage and TV appearances; the ITCup blog posts that summarise their wins are the only long-form public material. Outreach realistic only via the ITCup organisers — no verified X, LinkedIn, or YouTube under Luigi Pegoraro's name surfaces against the championship record.