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On YouTube there is a fairly recent documentary on the DW Documentary channel, called Gambled away in the financial crisis - The Deutsche Bank story. Many of these documentaries never, unfortunately, go into the real details of the types of people who gain roles and climb up the corporate ladder, which is the cause of so many disasters, those who are narcissists, psychopaths, or sociopaths, many of whom have these characteristics, but also why so many of these firms have so-called compliance officers, risk managers and internal auditors and yet none of these who can be earning hundreds of thousands of pounds, dollars or euros seem not to do anything let alone the oversight of financial regulators. But this is a topic for another day. Greed surpasses everything in the corporate world, as does the lust for that power and acceptance by your so-called peer group.  But the reason I have written this piece is that my focus is mainly on price movements of securities and I want to show an ...