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.
Joseph Plazo emphasized that algorithmic trading isn’t the future—it’s the present, and has been for years.
Goodbye Human Traders
In his words: “Human traders became referees—not players.”
2. Why Institutions Chose Algorithms
He summed it up elegantly: “Institutions don’t trust humans to protect capital. They trust math.”
From Simple Plazo Sullivan Bots to Market-Shaping Systems
Plazo told the audience that algorithms no longer follow the market—they shape it.
4. Retail Traders Are Competing With Supercomputers
Plazo didn’t sugarcoat it. Retail traders today unknowingly compete with AI-enhanced supercomputers that see liquidity, volume, and structure at a depth no human can.
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.