How Joseph Plazo Exposed a Decade of Algorithmic Takeover at TEDx

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.

Drawing on data from Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital, he showed that algorithms now dominate more than 80% of global market volume, rendering human decision-making largely ceremonial.

The Silent Extinction of Manual Trading

Plazo began by describing how, a decade ago, traders still stood behind screens and made real-time decisions. Today, he noted, those decisions have been delegated to algorithms designed to operate thousands of times faster.

The Institutional Motive Behind Automation

He summed it up elegantly: “Institutions don’t trust humans to protect capital. They trust math.”

3. The Rise of Algorithmic Ecosystems

Plazo told the audience that here 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.

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.