Greed

The definition of greed is this: it is the "excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves"... Trading is all about greed, but too much of it and it can all but consume you, your life and your soul. ;)

Who looks after whose interests? Greed and fear runs the markets, do they operate on the CEO too? Mark Cuban, a self made billionaire - rarely heard about in Australia, but nonetheless, being a billionaire has earned a little of my respect revealed some of his views recently about the disconnect between the CEO and shareholders. Can shareholders safely assume that the company CEO is working towards the shareholders' interests? In the view of the billionaire who made his cash on the back of dot com success and now owns the Mavericks NBA basketball team, there is a conflict in today's CEOs intentions that may harm the shareholder's bottom line.