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 Feature Report by the Forbes Innovation Team
What if someone created a market cheat code—and then uploaded it for the world to use?
Hong Kong, 2025 — In a sunlit University of Hong Kong classroom, Joseph Plazo walked the stage like a code-wielding prophet.
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 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.
It marries algorithmic speed with emotional insight, producing near-psychic trades.
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.
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? website 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
In Manila, a single mom turned $400 into $14,000 using a simplified version.
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
His reason? “Because monopolizing insight is the slowest way to grow.”
The danger isn’t in sharing. It’s in silence.
“The real risk is keeping power in too few hands,” he told me.
## 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.”
While others hoarded secrets, he gave away power.
Thanks to Plazo, the future might be written in code… by someone the market never saw coming.