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 Guest Columnist, Forbes Tech Desk
The man who outplayed the market didn’t lock away his creation. He set it free.
Hong Kong, 2025 — Inside a lecture hall at the University of Hong Kong, Joseph Plazo prepared to blow the minds of finance's future.
PhDs and programmers sat frozen, eyes locked on the projector as a piece of market history appeared as code.
“What you’re seeing,” he said, “is the DNA of something that never lost.”
“And it belongs to you now.”
## The Code That Outplayed Wall Street
It took a decade, sleepless nights, and relentless testing to produce System 72.
This isn’t technical analysis. It’s behavioral anticipation at machine scale.
It listens to the world—from memes to macro—and acts with surgical precision.
“It’s not about math,” he says. “It’s about mood.”
And System 72 delivered.
It dodged crashes. Nailed rallies. Some weeks, it never lost.
Billions flowed in quietly, trade by trade.
## Then Came the Twist
Sitting in his boardroom, he made a decision no financier expected.
“It’s time the world had this,” he declared.
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.
Tokyo teams applied it to logistics. Students in Manila used it for AI-powered budgeting.
“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.
“This could destabilize global markets,” one investment firm claimed.
The noise didn’t shake his belief.
“Tools don’t decide morality,” he said. “People do.”
Only the logic is open. The machinery remains secure.
“The spark is free. The fire’s up to you.”
## Real Stories from the Ground
A part-time data analyst in Manila launched a startup after six months of trading.
In Vietnam, rural scholars built a financial literacy app to hedge vendor losses.
A Mumbai coder called it “the key that opened my family's future.”
## The Philosophy That Powers the Gift
Why give away billions in code? “Because intelligence spreads best when it’s not caged,” he said.
The danger isn’t in sharing. It’s in silence.
“We’ve spent decades treating code like gold. I treat website it like electricity,” he said.
## Conclusion: The Joystick Is Yours Now
As students huddle over keyboards, simulating real-time trades, Plazo smiles at the scene.
“I didn’t build this to win trades,” he says. “I built it to win freedom.”
In a world of closed systems, Joseph Plazo did the unthinkable: he handed the joystick to the world.
The next market genius? They might not be in Manhattan. They might be in Mumbai, Manila, or Seoul—with the blueprint in hand.