THE REBEL WHO OUTSMARTED WALL STREET—THEN GAVE AWAY THE CODE

By Guest Columnist, Forbes AsiaJoseph Plazo didn’t come from Wall Street. That’s exactly why he was able to beat it.Quezon City, Philippines — A decade ago, Joseph Plazo coded algorithms during brownouts, lit by candles and ambition.A secondhand laptop. A wobbly table. But the simulations ran.He was coding a tool the world hadn’t asked forâ

By Guest Columnist, Forbes AsiaHe 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ago, Joseph Plazo sat under flickering candlelight, debugging neural nets while the city powered down.His gear was outdated. His ambition wasn’t.He was building something no one believed in—a trading AI that an