FROM OUTSIDER TO ORACLE: HOW JOSEPH PLAZO’S AI TOOK DOWN THE MARKET, THEN TAUGHT IT TO THE WORLD

By Forbes ContributorWall Street never saw him coming—because Joseph Plazo never played by its rules.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 built, in obscurity, a system that sensed emotion before markets