WALL STREET’S SMARTEST TRADING AI IS NOW IN STUDENTS’ HANDS

By Special Feature by Forbes AsiaWhat 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

When a technopreneur crafts a trading algorithm that beats Wall Street—and gives it away for free—you brace for either brilliance or bedlam.Under a canopy of chandeliers in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, Joseph Plazo stepped onto the stage, flash drive in hand.“This is the brain that beat the markets,” he said, lifting a USB. “And I’m