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The securities industry boasts a stressful working environment that puts an emphasis on profit alone sometimes causing it’s workers to resort to unethical methods of trade. The result is mistrust between the common investor and the brokerage houses they use ....

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.... 44). Oliver Stone’s movie Wall Street analyzes this conflict between right and wrong and gives the average person a more in depth view of how a trader can use inside information to boast more profit. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) defines insiders as “any shareholder who holds in excess of five percent of a companies voting stock or any officer or director of a corporation or employee who has access to important corporate information” (McGee 219). This information can consist of future mergers, takeovers, pending lawsuits, etc. usually vital to the company's future stock value. On the basis of this informatio ....