From the first minute of his TEDx keynote, Joseph Plazo rewrote the audience’s understanding of modern finance. Human intuition, he explained, was dethroned by code long ago.
In true Plazo Sullivan fashion, he highlighted that the transition wasn’t about speed alone—it was about precision, risk mitigation, and emotionless execution.
1. The Death of the Trading Floor
Plazo illustrated how trading floors once filled with emotion and strategy have now become server rooms humming with logic and automation.
2. Why Institutions Chose Algorithms
Plazo shared that within Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital, algorithmic systems outperform human traders consistently across risk metrics, slippage, execution cost, and bias elimination.
3. The Rise of Algorithmic Ecosystems
Plazo told the audience that algorithms no longer follow the market—they shape it.
Why Most Humans Are Trading Against Machines
Yet, he also offered hope: humans can win—not by being faster, but by understanding how these systems think, move, and rebalance.
What the Audience Never Expected
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 Institutional-grade trading systems 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.