If you look up their meanings in the dictionary, they are different, but they do share some similarities. One similarity is that both are risky. In gambling, they say the house always wins. You don't need a ton of knowledge; you only need an insane amount of luck. However, in trading, you can't succeed in a short period of time. Trading is not for lazy people since you need to study carefully, or you will burn your investment.
But as most people say some traders keep losing or lazy to learn that trading is gambling.But there are always difference of it, profitable traders are not gamblers, they don't just randomly press buy and sell button, there is always analysis and reasons why they buy and sell specific trading pair.
Let’s take the example of the recent Bitcoin drop, (almost) no one expected it, even the big channels… A small correction was expected. Well, some sudden political and economic news was the reason for all of that and crushed the traders’ morale that day… (Thank God the market is recovering now)
