Trading vs. Gambling
Trading is similar speculative like Gambling because in Trading, we make a speculation if, for example, Bitcoin’s price or any Altcoin’s price will go up or down. We can’t predict it for sure but we can analyze patterns and market movements to make a decision. Similar, like Gambling, Trading is also based on luck because no one can predict if and when a price of an asset will go up or down, we can only speculate.
Of course, we should not rely on profits from Gambling or Trading because it is a very risky strategy and always depends for big parts on luck to earn money for us.
Interesting enough, but do you know the whole difference between gambling and trading? If you generalize that trading is the same as gambling, you are indirectly saying that a trader is a gambler.
That's not wrong, because some people who trade do have a gambler's mind, I think you see from it, where they analyze the funds find a potential to set a position in a market price movement, then that's what is called a speculation, unfortunately in trading you can manage the profit you might get, the risk you manage will be better, along with if you know early about a news maybe you can get a moment to get a profit in the market, while gambling is not like that, it doesn't require much analysis, let alone just based on luck without any way to anticipate experiencing excessive losses if you take a position in gambling.
I am one of those people who say that gambling is not the same as trading because they are two different things, but in practice you may use the same method as gambling which is guessing without any clear calculations and relying on your gut feeling you have gambled on trading.