There is increasing evidence that the nation's securities markets provide a home for vipers, as well as for bulls and bears.

News headlines regularly announce investigations, indictments and consent decrees for retiree fraud, elder abuse, misrepresentation, conspiracy, and other conduct (hopefully) not taught at Harvard Business School.

Every year, numerous complaints are made against brokers by customers covering a range of misconduct -- including churning accounts (trading excessively in order to generate commissions), engaging in unsuitable or unauthorized trading, failing to follow investor instructions, misrepresentations, market manipulation, charging excessive markups, and peddling high risk products to the unwary.

If you do not know where good and bad markets end and broker misconduct begins, let us know. Perhaps we can help.