So technically you are saying that gambling can be more ideal as a stress reliever than making a trade?. well it depends in trading if you have knowledge regarding the position you would like to do is you make the right time and proper preparation at the same time, if you execute the trade properly its good but if not you have a mistakes every thing right there has a lesson but in playing gambling is you just make a deposit, play and let the game you choose to decide if you are a winner or not, gambling is more stressful because you are just letting other people make your luck not yourself with your knowledge and skills.
IN my opinion gambling is much more stressful than day trading, I say this for the following reason: for example if a person takes 100$ and that person starts making sports bets, that person bets 10$, loses, bets others 10$ and loses again, bet on 10$ wins, but then goes back to bet on 10$ and loses again, this person will start to get stressed because he sees that his bankroll is reducing all the time, and he doesn't know how to reverse this situation, then panic starts to take over him, but when doing trade he will always put stop - loss and he can do hodl for some time until he has profit, then he will not have stress when doing trade
In my view you cannot really compare gambling and trading. Gambling should not be stressful, it is just a game and it has to be played for leisure, except pro-poker and the like. But trading is not a game, it is a real profession and done properly, is based on facts and analysis, a different thing is people trying to think of it as being a game. I would rather say it may be a profession.
Yes, in fact, for me trading is like a profession because it is being studied all the time and there are more and more cases in which more and more can be learned, in fact the large number of books that there are and the number of things that It has happened to many traders who consider themselves professionals, it is something to take into consideration, learning is unique, the game is as you say, just to have fun, except that in poker sometimes you need to have that touch of luck to win with more ease, in particular I really like poker, it is one of the most exciting games, but I must admit that sometimes one can feel pressured and stressed at the same time.
an interesting fact about day trading is that all guys who consider themselves gurus or experts are creating youtube channels and writing books and even creating telegram channels where they charge money for the person to be a member and have privileged information, they also give courses, the issue What I asked myself was the following: if these guys are making a profit doing day trades then why aren't they just day trading for a living? right at the beginning I even thought that maybe it was their option to have more other sources of income
but when I also started to learn about day trade and started to day trade I was constantly losing money and I kept blaming myself because I thought the problem was with me and that I needed to have more knowledge, that with that everything would work out, and it took a while good time me looking for more knowledge and losing money on trade
until after a long time I started to observe that these gurus and specialists when they make videos on youtube they don't say how much money they put in the day trade and they don't even trade live with their money and they don't say how much they can profit per day and what The reason is simple: they are not day trading, they lost money and gave up day trading, but they discovered another way to earn money which was with youtube, courses, books and telegram channels
