When Joseph Plazo walked onto the TEDx stage, the room shifted. Not because he carried Wall Street bravado, but because he carried something far rarer: the decoded logic of how hedge funds truly enter trades while safeguarding hundreds of millions in capital.
He made it clear that in the institutional world, survival precedes profit—an axiom deeply embedded into Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital’s operating DNA.
Institutions Wait for Structure, Not Signals
In his TEDx talk, here Plazo described market structure as the “language of institutional intent.”
Hedge Funds Hunt Liquidity Before Positioning
According to Plazo, liquidity isn’t just a concept; it’s the oxygen hedge funds breathe.
Why Hedge Funds Wait for Aggressive Imbalance
He revealed that hedge funds view displacement as proof, not prediction.
Institutions Don’t Enter First—They Enter Second
The audience leaned in as he described this as the “institutional trapdoor to precision.”
Capital Protection Through Selective Execution
Plazo revealed that elite traders measure success not by entries, but by avoided losses.
The Standing Ovation
Listeners realized they weren’t learning tactics; they were learning the architecture of protection that institutions live by.