Trading Godmode: The AI That Beats Markets—And the Man Who Wants You to Use It
Trading Godmode: The AI That Beats Markets—And the Man Who Wants You to Use It
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By Forbes Contributor
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 line of code,” he said, “is what beat Wall Street.”
“And it belongs to you now.”
## The Code That Outplayed Wall Street
It took a decade, sleepless nights, and relentless testing to produce System 72.
It marries algorithmic speed with emotional insight, producing near-psychic trades.
It listens to the world—from memes to macro—and acts with surgical precision.
“Markets aren’t equations,” Plazo explains. “They’re emotional theaters.”
And System 72 delivered.
It dodged crashes. Nailed rallies. Some weeks, it never lost.
System 72 wasn’t just smart. It was surgical.
## Then Came the Twist
Sitting in his boardroom, he made a decision no financier expected.
“I’m releasing the core engine to the public,” he told his team.
It wasn’t a joke. It was a paradigm shift.
No hedge fund exclusives. No paywalls. Just code—for students.
“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.
Singaporean students created trading bots. In Taipei, it powered disaster simulations. In Seoul, it optimized electric grid forecasting.
“This could be AI’s Gutenberg moment,” one Singapore professor claimed.
Even the IMF quietly requested a trial.
## Critics, Controversy, and the Ethics of Genius
Naturally, the elite weren’t thrilled.
“He’s playing with fire,” said a Wall Street analyst.
The noise didn’t shake his belief.
“You don’t blame the scalpel,” he said. “You train the hand.”
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.
“We’ve spent decades treating code like gold. I treat it like electricity,” he said.
## Conclusion: The Joystick Is here 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.