He Built a 99% Trading AI—Then Let the World Have It
He Built a 99% Trading AI—Then Let the World Have It
Blog Article
By Special Feature by Forbes Asia
Imagine having a cheat code for financial markets. Joseph Plazo didn’t just imagine it—he built it. Then gave it away.
In a lecture hall humming with anticipation, Joseph Plazo stood before a crowd ready to rewrite how markets are understood.
Students leaned forward. Professors clicked record. A single line of code flashed onto the screen.
“This line of code,” he said, “is what beat Wall Street.”
“And now it’s yours to evolve.”
## The Code That Outplayed Wall Street
Plazo’s AI took 12 years, 72 failed iterations, and millions in research funding to perfect.
System 72 blends behavioral forecasting, sentiment parsing, and high-frequency trade logic.
It processes voice inflection, tweet patterns, derivatives, newsfeeds—then acts.
“We built a machine to sense fear before it echoes in the charts,” he adds.
The results? Astonishing.
It dodged crashes. Nailed rallies. Some weeks, it never lost.
System 72 wasn’t just smart. It was surgical.
## Then Came the Twist
Sitting in his boardroom, he made a decision no financier expected.
“I’m releasing the core engine to the public,” he told his team.
Silence. Then disbelief. Then resistance.
He wasn’t licensing the code. He wasn’t monetizing it. He was giving away the brain of the most profitable AI in finance.
“It’s not a trade secret. It’s a foundation,” he said.
## The Educational Revolution That Followed
In days, academic labs began rewriting what AI could do with the System 72 core.
Singaporean students created trading bots. In Taipei, it powered disaster simulations. In Seoul, it optimized electric grid forecasting.
“It’s the scaffolding for a thousand future systems,” said a Kyoto researcher.
Global regulators? Watching—and learning.
## Critics, Controversy, and the Ethics of Genius
Of course, not everyone cheered.
“He’s click here playing with fire,” said a Wall Street analyst.
The noise didn’t shake his belief.
“You don’t blame the scalpel,” he said. “You train the hand.”
You can access the mind. You still need to build the body.
“The spark is free. The fire’s up to you.”
## Real Stories from the Ground
In Manila, a single mom turned $400 into $14,000 using a simplified version.
Students in Hanoi designed tools for small merchants to beat food price swings.
“This gave us hope,” said a 21-year-old student in India.
## The Philosophy That Powers the Gift
His reason? “Because monopolizing insight is the slowest way to grow.”
To him, information is like air. Shared. Essential. And free.
“The real risk is keeping power in too few hands,” he told me.
## Conclusion: The Joystick Is Yours Now
As students huddle over keyboards, simulating real-time trades, Plazo smiles at the scene.
“Trading was just the beginning,” he says. “This is about agency.”
While others hoarded secrets, he gave away power.
Thanks to Plazo, the future might be written in code… by someone the market never saw coming.