I made profit from hodling and so are the thousands of those who made a lot from hodling their coins, in fact this is most safer than trading because here is a risk in trading, in hodling you just research for the coin with good potential in the market and have the patient not to trade until you made a profit, let the developer make a move to create the platform and complete the roadmap, and let things takes its course.
Don't get me wrong. I ain't saying that one can't make money hodling. What I said was that those who hodl only play safe and don't make as much profit or loss as those who trade. Let me give you an instance. I held 1,000 unit of a certain token for two years but didn't trade it for once. Then, in May of this year that token rose from $0.02 to $2.4. No doubt that one stood the chance of making profit. But it's very clear that the profit one would make was subject to the 1,000 units if one sold at ATH. Now, the story would've been different if I had traded that same 1,000 within the two - year period. I could've traded it to 5,000 units or more; or even lost below my initial stock. Surely, profit from 5,000 units is better than that from 1,000. But there isn't any risk keeping the 1,000 intact unlike making 5,000. That's just my point.