When we talk about bull market we talking of a 2x price appreciation, and let take bitcoin for example, who profits more between a long term and me holder who bought bitcoin at a price range of $35,000 and bitcoin reaching $100,000, so a trader who open his trading position of 10 and with a good amount of capital around when the price is 71,000, so between the two who stand the chance of profiting more putting into consideration the timing that it involved for both parties.
Taking this question out of my personal curiosity of the market and how each bull run. Ale more millionaires in the bitcoin ecosystem, via trading vs holding.
My simple answer is going to a holder is the winner against a trader.
Because a holder can enjoy most of the bull run and take profit with full original bitcoin amount at his exit price. The exit price for taking profit can not be perfect one because it's always hard to guess what is ATH of a market cycle, a bull run to take profit; but at least the holder does not lose any fraction of his original bitcoin amount by trading.
With a trader, trading is risky, and risk of selling low, buying higher repeatedly appears. It means when a trader trades more rounds, risk of losing several fractions of his original bitcoin amount is increasing. It's risk for Spot trading market, and if it is Margin market or Futures market, risk is much bigger with market liquidations.