Joseph Plazo opened his TEDx speech not with optimism, but with a quiet bombshell: “If you think humans trade the markets today… you’re ten years late to the truth.” The crowd froze.
Joseph Plazo emphasized that algorithmic trading isn’t the future—it’s the present, and has been for years.
The Silent Extinction of Manual Trading
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.
3. The Rise of Algorithmic Ecosystems
Plazo told the audience check here that algorithms no longer follow the market—they shape it.
Why Most Humans Are Trading Against Machines
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.
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.