In trading there is much profit if you're equipped with enough knowledge as long as you're having good decision making principles, yet you can be successful trader. While if you gamble your money there could be a possibility that you will lose a lot of it due to successive times you will be engaged in playing much with your bets, and you might be out of control. Unlike with trading you only have to be more updated with the market price value of a certain altcoins that you are trading, and the most important thing to be secured is you're not going to have mistakes with your trade decisions; and if that happens you could lose more compared to gambling. But still I prefer to do tradings aside from gambling, because it has more advantages rather than gambling.
That is where the hard part comes in. Trading is a hard task especially when you are not paying attention or not updated. If you think of it, Gambling requires skill, experience, luck and money; what trading requires is time, attention, Skill, knowledge, luck, money, experience which is many than gambling. I am not saying that trading is a hard thing, but if you want to trade, you must be a good risk taker and a good gambler. Trading is a big gamble, you must be really ready if you want to do it, it is not easy as gambling but you can have good profits from it.