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
He pointed out that while humans still “monitor,” algorithms now act.
The Real Reason Humans Were Removed
He explained that emotion, fatigue, hesitation, and bias are liabilities in a world where markets move in milliseconds.
How Code Became the Market’s Nervous System
He described how these systems now manage read more everything from order execution to risk balancing—often with zero human intervention.
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 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.