There is a great movie that you guys should see called "Boiler Room". It has a pretty good cast, and is about a fly by night securities trading firm in Long Island that has a name deceptively similar to a major Wall Street trading firm. The traders know the dialogue of "Wall Street" by heart, and immortalize Gordon Gekko. Like Gekko they all wind up in prison for stock fraud.

I think the lesson to be learned is that the desire to make a reasonable profit is normal...unbridled greed warps all logical perspective.