The Unlikely Genius Who Cracked the Market and Shared It with the World

By Guest Columnist, Forbes Asia

Joseph Plazo didn’t come from Wall Street. That’s exactly why he was able to beat it.

In a hot Quezon City apartment, with fans off and lights out, Joseph Plazo kept coding—driven by vision alone.

His gear was outdated. His ambition wasn’t.

He was building something no one believed in—a trading AI that anticipated fear and greed before markets even blinked.

Today, that system—called System 72—has a 99% win rate in stocks, and 95% in copyright.

It crushed benchmarks and rode chaos like a seasoned trader.

Here’s where the story flips: he didn’t sell it. He shared it.

## Cracking the Market Without Permission

Plazo wasn’t Wall Street royalty. He wasn’t Ivy League. He wasn’t even invited to the table.

By day he earned rent. By night, he trained machines to feel fear.

“Traders react. I wanted to anticipate,” he says.

He failed—71 times.

Then, System 72 clicked. It decoded emotional signatures.

## The Day the Machine Spoke Louder Than Noise

In early 2024, during a geopolitical scare, System 72 called a rebound in tech.

It read hope where humans saw chaos.

Returns skyrocketed. Risks dropped. Everyone paid attention.

Offers came. $200M for a partial license. Exclusive deals. All rejected.

## The Shock Move: Give It to the Kids

Instead of cashing out, Plazo shared the code with classrooms.

He included docs, code, and teaching guides. Everything but the keys to the vault.

“This isn’t a product. It’s a compass,” he told a stunned press in Singapore.

## A New Breed of Thinkers

Now, undergrads are solving real-world problems using Plazo’s framework.

They’re using the AI not just to profit—but to serve.

“We’re learning to think like markets,” said a Tokyo PhD student.

## Pushback from the Power Players

Naturally, the old guard bristled.

“You don’t hand kids a nuke,” one manager scoffed.

Plazo stood firm.

“A tool is only as moral as its user,” he told a Jakarta audience.

The core code was open. The infrastructure? Proprietary.

## Legacy: Code as Redemption

In Seoul, during a keynote, he paused and said, “I did this because no one did it for me.”

His check here family lost everything to a speculative bet.

The tech matters. The teaching matters more.

## What If the Oracle Was Always Human?

From Ivy League to barangay incubators, Plazo’s teaching kids how to outthink machines.

“Don’t replicate me,” he urges. “Transcend me.”

## Final Word: The Oracle Who Shared the Map

He made billions, then made meaning.

“System 73 is next,” he says. “But this one… I hope you’ll build with me.”

And maybe that’s the biggest trade of all—secrecy for shared brilliance.