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 Guest Analyst, Forbes Asia
He cracked the market—and chose not to keep the advantage to himself.
Seoul, South Korea — The auditorium at Seoul National University was packed as Joseph Plazo, founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital, took the stage.
The audience was electric—hedge fund analysts beside machine learning prodigies.
He started with a whisper: “Hedge funds would pay millions to bury this.”
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 worked, he didn’t sell it. He shared it.
## Stealing Fire—and Lighting the World
It took 12 years and 72 attempts to perfect the algorithm.
It didn’t crunch numbers. It decoded behavior.
From news to noise to nuance—System 72 absorbed it all.
It became a radar for volatility and opportunity hidden beneath chaos.
One fund manager called it “a weather radar for investor fear.”
And rather than cash out, he gifted its code—unconditionally.
“I built it. You evolve it,” he told the world’s leading academic institutions.
## Rewriting the Grammar of Capital
In six months, results surfaced across Asia.
In Vietnam, agriculture met AI—and got smarter.
In Indonesia, labs tuned the algorithm to optimize grid reliability.
In Malaysia, undergrads helped local shops hedge currency risk.
He wasn’t sharing tech. He was rewriting access.
“We’ve turned finance into a private language,” he said. “I’m handing out translations.”
## Wall Street’s Whisper Campaign
The old guard responded—with murmurs and warnings.
“This is irresponsible,” a Wall Street insider grumbled. “Too much power, too freely given.”
But the more they warned, the more he taught.
“Leverage shouldn’t be hoarded—it should be distributed,” he countered.
“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 read more 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.