Investing is in fact different than trading and requires different skills but that does not mean that it is easier, an investor will need to hold his coins no matter what until it reaches his target price and this can be a very dangerous strategy especially if you want to implement this strategy with new altcoins, we have seen countless examples of people doing this over the years on the forum and getting awful results, as such you will need to know how to do your due diligence and the ability to know which coin is good to hold for the long term and which is not, but you will never know if you were right until it is too late making investing a very difficult way to make money.
I would say that investing is a part of trading and one who is good at investing would eventually be good at trading too.
Let me explain what I mean here. Trading has 2 parts mainly:
- Accumulating/buying an asset at lowest possible value
- Selling or getting rid of the asset at the peak time
Now, one who knows how to invest would actually know what is the best time to buy an asset and hence would easily overcome part 1 of the task and hence make it much easier to execute the second part which is much easier, just selling the asset at better or probably best value.
Overall, when someone is finding trading is not suitable for them than probably investing must be the right option for them to go with to find better ROI. In some perspective, both investing and trading look similar because only the timeframe involved is different between these two types of earning methods. Fortunately I am into both trading and investing as I am trading on long-term basis and investing for years.