I think futures trading is a form of gambling. I saw the last six months report of a younger brother who is very close to me. He knows about crypto from my younger brother. He was taught the holding trade. Meaning, he was given an idea of how to trade on the spot. But he can learn about how to trade futures with the help of YouTube.
Why do you think future trading is gambling? Is it because you saw someone lose $14k in trading? That's why you think it's similar to gambling, but I hope you know that amount of money can be lost even if you are into spot trading. In trading, if you don't understand the basics, then you are likely going to lose more. We know that trading is risky, but trading in the future is more dangerous because you can easily lose your money compared to if you are in spot trading, but you can also lose in spot trading.
One of the worst mistakes people make is trying to learn how to trade on YouTube. Most of the people that post on YouTube are doing it for their own selfish interests, and they don't care if people watching the videos are benefiting from the videos. Some of them end up stealing other people's videos, they will edit them and decide to post them on their page. Most of the people claiming to be professional traders are just fake, they are not really traders. That's why you will always see videos of when they are making profits online, but you will never see when they are losing, they are doing that just to deceive people.
I found out from his family that he lost around 14 thousand dollars trading crypto. I told him the last time I saw him to buy bitcoins with all his wealth. But he didn't hear anything. Later he sold his grandfather's land and paid off all his loans. Later I came to know from him that he knows about futures trade from YouTube and lost all his dollars by trading without understanding the value of x.
When you're trading and your losses are getting too much, then it's better to stop trading for that particular period of time. You can just decide to do more research to discover what is wrong and why you are losing most of your trade. In trading, there will always be losses, but when your losses are more than your profits, then something is wrong. Then the funniest part is that the boy decided to trade with the money he borrowed. I am sure he will have been misguided by the videos he watches on YouTube.