Joseph Plazo Built a 99% Accurate Trading AI—and Gave It Away
Joseph Plazo Built a 99% Accurate Trading AI—and Gave It Away
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What happens when someone creates a trading AI that humiliates Wall Street—and then open-sources it?
Under a canopy of chandeliers in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, Joseph Plazo stepped onto the stage, flash drive in hand.
“This is the brain that beat the markets,” he said, lifting a USB. “And I’m giving it to the world.”
Gasps. Phones dropped. The world’s most accurate AI trader was now public domain.
At the center of this seismic shift: Joseph Plazo, a man dismantling the monopoly on market intelligence.
## The Genius Behind the Code
Joseph Plazo, now 41, isn’t your typical billionaire.
He’s polished, reserved, and metaphorical.
The origin of his invention wasn’t brilliance—it was pain.
“I watched my father lose everything on a bad investment,” he tells me over coffee in Makati.
That was when young Joseph vowed to build a system smarter than fear.
## System 72: A Machine That Thinks in Emotion
He called it System 72—a machine that anticipates fear before it moves the needle.
It didn’t just read trends. It read behavior.
System 72 interprets headlines, voice tones, social sentiment, and even weather to anticipate risk.
“It’s intuition—only faster, smarter, relentless,” Plazo explains.
In less than a year, it transformed $25M into $3.8B.
It dodged the 2024 oil crash. It rode the tech micro-rally after Taiwan’s semiconductor scare.
## The Big Release: Why He Gave It Away
And then, stunning the world, he gave it away—to the classrooms of Asia.
Tsinghua, NUS, Tokyo U—each received the source code.
His only ask: make it better—and pay it forward.
In weeks, Seoul students were simulating here real-time markets. In Jakarta, a PhD candidate modeled flood insurance with it. In India, undergrads used it to optimize food distribution during monsoons.
## Critics, Cynics, and Controlled Chaos
Wall Street predictably bristled.
“Is this brilliance—or a publicity stunt?” skeptics asked.
Plazo shrugs. “If generosity looks like insanity to you, maybe you’ve forgotten how progress works.”
But Plazo isn’t careless. He shared the brain, not the fortress.
“I gave away the brain,” he says. “You still have to build the body.”
## Spreading the Mindset: The God Algorithm Tour
Since then, he’s traveled the globe on what’s been dubbed the God Algorithm World Tour.
He teaches. He challenges. He demystifies.
“He’s not just sharing code,” says Prof. Mei Lin of NUS. “He’s sharing a philosophy.”
## His True Legacy
So why give away the golden goose?
Because for Plazo, wealth isn't what you hoard. It's what you catalyze.
“Trading should be taught like math,” he declares.
Deep down, this may be less about code and more about closure.
## The Final Word
The future’s uncertain—but one thing is clear.
Chaos may come. So might evolution.
But Joseph Plazo didn’t just write a smarter algorithm. He wrote a new rulebook.
As we left the Marina Bay ballroom, he looked over the skyline.
“They say wealth is control,” he said. “But true wealth… is what you can give away.”
Then the man who gave away his brain vanished into the crowd—unguarded, unafraid, but still ten steps ahead.