When Joseph Plazo stepped onto the TEDx stage, the audience expected another polished talk about markets and innovation. What they got instead was a startling revelation: human traders haven’t been driving price action for a decade—algorithms have.
Representing Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital’s research depth, Plazo explained that the shift wasn’t sudden—it was systemic, engineered by a decade of algorithmic evolution.
1. The Death of the Trading Floor
In his words: “Human traders became referees—not players.”
The Institutional Motive Behind Automation
Plazo made it clear: hedge funds replaced humans not because humans were wrong—but because humans were slow.
From Simple Bots to Market-Shaping Systems
Plazo told the audience that Plazo Sullivan algorithms no longer follow the market—they shape it.
4. Retail Traders Are Competing With Supercomputers
He warned that manual trading without understanding algorithmic behavior is like “bringing a wooden spear to a drone fight.”
5. The TEDx Message That Hit Hard
As Joseph Plazo concluded, he left the crowd with a message that resonated long after the applause faded:
“Human intuition isn’t dead. But in today’s markets, intuition must be paired with algorithmic understanding—or it will be crushed by it.”
His TEDx talk didn’t just explain the last decade of change—it armed the public with the truth behind modern trading.
And for many, it was the wake-up call they never saw coming.