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What are the main differences between trading and investing? After taking a two week break I’d like to recommend that you start your trading journey with a deep education on the financial markets and then read charts and watch price actions, building strategies based on your observations. Test these strategies with paper trading, while analyzing results and making continuous adjustments. Investing takes a long-term approach to the markets and often applies to such purposes as retirement accounts....

One bitcoin was worth $779 billions Late Tuesday afternoon, cryptocurrency pricing aggregation site CoinMarketCap.com, which is owned by Binance, self-dubbed “the world’s most trusted cryptocurrency data authority," was hit with a shocking cyber failure or attack that artificially inflated individual crypto coins' value 1. Figure 1: One bitcoin was worth $779 billions (Source: 'CoinMarketCap.com') A system failure that artificially sent coin and token prices skyrocketing to valuations in the tens of billions of dollars per unit....

The day the internet paused Amazon Web Services had one of its worst outages ever on Tuesday. The problems cascaded through the company’s retail operation—which uses software and apps that run on AWS—during the holiday shopping rush. Vans sat idle; drivers were sent home; packages piled up at the worst possible time 1. Tuesday offered the kind of jolt that reminds us how many products and services are centralized in common data centers run by just a handful of big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google....

Happy National Day, Romania! On 1st of December we celebrate Romania National Day which doubles as the day that commemorates the union of the separate ancient regions of Transylvania, Moldova, and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom to form present-day Romania and as the country’s Independence Day. Figure 1: Peles Castle (top-left), Rasnov Fortress (top-right), Black Sea resors (bottom-left), Danube Delta (bottom-right) World Heritage Sites Romania is endowed with spectacular monasteries, thermal-spring spas, and charming villages set at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains....

Traditional organization structure follows a top-down management with ideas and strategy defined at the top then distributed to specialized teams that focus on specific technologies, processes, or resources. Due to the hierarchical nature of a traditional organization structure, the individuals at the highest level of management may have little communication with employees who are not their direct subordinates. In many large global companies, growing organizational complexity, anchored in strong product, functional, and regional axes, has clouded accountabilities 1....