Taras Sviatun

Taras Sviatun is one of the rare Russian-speaking traders whose Robbins WCTC credential comes from the multi-year Global Cup format rather than a single-year futures division. The 2022-2023 Global Cup audit closed at +55.7%, putting him fourth overall in a field whose multi-year discipline rewards consistency over single-cycle blow-ups. The career arc behind the placement is fifteen-plus years across the major futures and equity venues — CME index and rate futures, NYSE equities, MICEX (Moscow Exchange) during the Russian retail-trading boom, and Forex on the side — broader than most modern WCTC podium finishers, who tend to specialise in one division.

The business he co-founded — Trading Volume Terminal, branded as TVT — is the public surface that survived the championship. The "Trade Like a Pro" course is his teaching practice; the YouTube channel @volumetradertvt, the Instagram @taras_sviatun_trader, the Telegram @tvtexpert, and the tvt.expert site sit on top of it. The public-voice line from the Top 5 Traders interview — "I wouldn't recommend trading to anyone — it's a very hard and serious path. If someone decides to do it anyway, the main thing is: survive at any cost" — is the kind of framing that distinguishes practitioners from creators in the Russian-language retail-trading scene.

He is the most-cross-linkable Russian-speaking modern WCTC finisher. Public X is missing but the Facebook + Instagram + YouTube + Telegram set is fully verified, and the personal site tvt.expert is the canonical landing. Outreach via Instagram DM is the cleanest path; the Telegram channel is the active discussion surface.