Both are risky but they differ in how to earn . Because gambling bigger than you losing than your winnings . The first trading because you just lose especially if you are new to trading you expect that, you will lose money at first but when you trade you have studied it carefully will easily earn just because you know how to trade and had profits . Gambling because if you have no luck where are you exhausted all your money .
You can't called it easy but rather you can just play along with the situation with comfortability. And with this you can able to make such plan on what will you do on your next move.
Advance trader still experiencing loss up to today so still it can't be considered as an easy one since cryptocurrencies' price fluctuations really moves a lot especially in altcoins.