He Built a 99% Trading AI—Then Let the World Have It
He Built a 99% Trading AI—Then Let the World Have It
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By Feature Report by the Forbes Innovation Team
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.
Students leaned forward. Professors clicked record. A single line of code flashed onto the screen.
“This,” he said, pausing, “is the core of the system that beat every market it touched.”
“And now it’s yours to evolve.”
## The Code That Outplayed Wall Street
Godmode—formally known as System 72—emerged after 12 years and 71 failures.
System 72 blends behavioral forecasting, sentiment parsing, and high-frequency trade logic.
It scrapes Reddit threads, decodes Fed speech stress levels, reads derivatives flow, and parses tweet tone.
“Markets aren’t equations,” Plazo explains. “They’re emotional theaters.”
And System 72 delivered.
It predicted the 2024 tech rally. It anticipated 2025’s altcoin run—48 hours early.
Billions flowed in quietly, trade by trade.
## Then Came the Twist
One afternoon, overlooking Manila’s skyline, Plazo dropped a bomb on his partners.
“It’s time the world had this,” he declared.
Silence. Then disbelief. Then resistance.
Instead of selling it to the highest bidder, he seeded it to the future.
“It’s not a trade secret. It’s a foundation,” he said.
## The Educational Revolution That Followed
Within weeks, universities across Asia were transforming the AI into tools for every field.
Tokyo teams applied it to website 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.
Plazo stayed firm.
“Tools don’t decide morality,” he said. “People do.”
He retained control of execution layers, capital buffers, and trading safeguards.
“The skeleton’s yours to build,” he added.
## 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 it like electricity,” he said.
## Conclusion: The Joystick Is Yours Now
He surveys the room—young minds, old dreams, and new tools.
“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.