I have read many discussions about trading and gambling, some people have rather joined the two as gambling. That is not totally true. For traders who agree that trading is same with gambling, they are just lazy to go into work and adopt the ethical way to trade and those are:
1. To cut your losses and increase your profit: You can conveniently do this by using stop loss or take profit adjustment or trailing stop but in gambling, is one straight end once you have gone on the bet, you either loss all you bet or win or you bet for.
Obviously there is nothing like Stop Loss in gambling unlike trading where a Stop loss can be placed at a few distance from the last swing, Resistance or Support with a specified Take profit, you can place a buy or limit order this is not applicable to gambling.
2. A trader can adjust his risk appetite by reducing or adjusting his lots size to protect his account and determine the appropriate leverage or but in gambling, a bettor has to go with the odds provided for the gay. He can't reduce or increase it against the fixed odds.
This another important aspect of trading risk reduction is very helpful when a trader account is getting low or nearing margin call or liquidation a trader can reduce the lot size or leverage thus with another opportunity to recover losses which isn't available with gambling .
3. Traders use analytical tools to determine what market price will be and wait for appropriate timing but gamblers play by the rules of casino.
With proper chart analysis trader a trader will in most cases have an edge over the market because trading analysis is very helpful in determining price direction of course there are different types of analysis for traders.
Trading is not gambling. You require luck in gambling but you require work in trading.
What is your thought.
Unfortunately some newbie traders don't want undergo the rigorous journey of learning how to trade they rather prefer gambling which they believe is the easiest means of earning quick money.