HOW A SELF-TAUGHT FILIPINO CODER GAVE THE MARKET A CONSCIENCE

By Forbes ContributorHe wasn’t from the finance elite. That’s how he beat them all.In a hot Quezon City apartment, with fans off and lights out, Joseph Plazo kept coding—driven by vision alone.A secondhand laptop. A wobbly table. But the simulations ran.He was building something no one believed in—a trading AI that anticipated fear and gree

What happens when someone creates a trading AI that humiliates Wall Street—and then open-sources it?Singapore, 2025 — A hush fell over the Marina Bay Sands ballroom as Joseph Plazo stepped under the crystal chandeliers.Holding up a house-key-sized flash drive, he declared, “This made billions. It’s yours now.”Shock rippled through the aud