Russia wants "unfriendly countries" to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles. That's a new directive from President Vladimir Putin as he attempts to leverage his country's in-demand resources to counter a barrage of Western sanctions.
"I have decided to implement ... a series of measures to switch payments — we'll start with that — for our natural gas supplies to so-called unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin said in ...

Long term investing is less time-consuming as I need not monitor markets for small fluctuations on a daily basis. additionally, I can lower the transaction fees compare to short term investor.The longer I invest, the more likely I will be able to weather low market periods.

biggest mistake was that I did not do enough in analysing the stock and straight away when in to buy the stock. Will try to spend more time in researching and getting more genuine info before making any trade.

2021 trading have been volatile. My trades does not goes how I wanted it to be, however it will be a good learning journey. Will try to understand or do research before entering to choose which stocks. Hopefully 2022, will be a better year.