Wall Street’s Smartest Trading AI Is Now in Students’ Hands

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 — Inside a lecture hall at the University of Hong Kong, Joseph Plazo prepared to blow the minds of finance's future.

The room froze as one command line appeared—quietly holding the blueprint of financial warfare.

“This line of code,” he said, “is what beat Wall Street.”

“And now it’s yours to evolve.”

## The Code That Outplayed Wall Street

It took a decade, sleepless nights, and relentless testing to produce System 72.

This isn’t technical analysis. It’s behavioral anticipation at machine scale.

It processes voice inflection, tweet patterns, derivatives, newsfeeds—then acts.

“We built a machine to sense fear before it echoes in the charts,” he adds.

The results? Astonishing.

It dodged crashes. Nailed rallies. Some weeks, it never lost.

System 72 wasn’t just smart. It was surgical.

## Then Came the Twist

In Manila’s financial district, Joseph Plazo said something unthinkable.

“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.

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.

“This is financial anarchy,” warned a U.S. fund manager.

But Plazo didn’t blink.

“We can’t outlaw brilliance,” he added. “We need to teach it.”

He retained control of execution layers, capital buffers, and trading safeguards.

“The skeleton’s yours to build,” he added.

## Real Stories from the Ground

A part-time data analyst in Manila launched a startup after six months of trading.

Vietnamese undergrads used the model to stabilize food market risk.

A Mumbai coder called it “the key that opened my family's future.”

## The Philosophy That Powers the Gift

Why give away billions in code? “Because intelligence spreads best when it’s not caged,” he said.

The danger isn’t in sharing. It’s in silence.

“We’ve spent decades treating code check here like gold. I treat it like electricity,” he said.

## 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.