He Built the World’s Smartest Trading AI—Then Taught It to Students
He Built the World’s Smartest Trading AI—Then Taught It to Students
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By Special Feature from Forbes Tech Desk
He cracked the market—and chose not to keep the advantage to himself.
Seoul, South Korea — At Seoul National University, a full house of professors, students, and analysts awaited Joseph Plazo’s keynote.
It wasn’t a tech demo. It was the unveiling of a revolution.
Plazo smiled and began: “This is what billionaires don’t want you to understand.”
And just like that, a billionaire began open-sourcing Wall Street’s crown jewel: a fully autonomous AI trading system with a 99% win rate in equities, and 95% in copyright.
## The Unlikely Hero of High Finance
Plazo didn’t climb the ladder through Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley.
He came from the streets of Quezon City—with a secondhand laptop and relentless focus.
“The market is biased—toward those with access,” he once said. “I wanted to balance the scales.”
So he trained a system to understand investors better than investors understood themselves.
When it clicked, he didn’t monetize. He democratized.
## Stealing Fire—and Lighting the World
He failed 71 times before System 72 emerged.
But Version 72 didn’t just see momentum—it *felt* it.
It read tweet tone. It tracked Reddit anxiety. It caught fear curves in options flows.
The result? A prediction engine for emotion-fueled markets.
Analysts described it as AI with a gut instinct.
Rather than gatekeep, he distributed its DNA to the best minds across Asia.
“This belongs to all of us,” he told professors. “Break it. Rebuild it. Teach it.”
## Rewriting the Grammar of Capital
In six more info months, results surfaced across Asia.
Vietnamese students used it to improve microfinance for rural communities.
In Indonesia, it forecasted island-wide energy needs.
Malaysian teams turned it into an economic safety net for SMEs.
Plazo didn’t just share code—he seeded a mindset.
“The market is a language,” he said in Kyoto. “But we locked the dictionary. I’m unlocking it.”
## Wall Street’s Whisper Campaign
The old guard responded—with murmurs and warnings.
“He’s dangerous,” said one anonymous hedge fund exec. “You don’t hand nukes to kids.”
But the more they warned, the more he taught.
“Power hoards,” he said. “Rebellion shares.”
“This is power redistribution, not philanthropy,” Plazo said.
## The World Tour of Revolution
Since the release, Plazo’s visited campuses, regulators, and classrooms from Manila to Bangkok.
In the Philippines, he brought AI to public school math classes.
In Jakarta, he turned law into empathy.
In Bangkok, he mentored underserved coders for a weekend bootcamp.
“Knowledge compounds when it’s passed on,” he tells every crowd.
## Analogy: The Gutenberg of Capital
“This is predictive finance’s printing press,” said an ethicist in Tokyo.
Just as Gutenberg democratized knowledge, Plazo democratized prediction.
Wall Street fears noise. Plazo fears silence—the kind that keeps people out.
“Prediction is oxygen,” he says. “Stop bottling it.”
## Legacy Over Luxury
He still manages capital, but his legacy is in open cognition.
System 73? “It’ll feel the world more than it measures it,” he hints.
And just like before—he’ll share it.
“Wealth should signal your power to uplift—not your capacity to hoard,” he says.
## Final Note: What Happens When You Hand Over the Code?
In a world where code is currency, Joseph Plazo gave his away.
Not for fame. Not for flash. For faith in what’s next.
And if his students succeed, they won’t just beat the market.