HOW A SELF-TAUGHT FILIPINO CODER GAVE THE MARKET A CONSCIENCE

By Forbes ContributorHe wasn’t from the finance elite. That’s how he beat them all.In a hot Quezon City apartment, with fans off and lights out, Joseph Plazo kept coding—driven by vision alone.The laptop was old. The electricity, unstable. But his resolve didn’t flicker.He built, in obscurity, a system that sensed emotion before markets rea