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.Quezon City, Philippines — Ten years ago, Joseph Plazo sat under flickering candlelight, debugging neural nets while the city powered down.The laptop was old. The electricity, unstable. But his resolve didn’t flicker.He built, in obscurity, a system that sens

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,” he said, raising a tiny flash drive, “contains the code that made us billions. And I’m giving it away.”You c