I consider trading as a professional activity. It requires analysis, research and others knowledges. Gambling you just require luck. But yes, maybe there is a thin line between then. It depends on how you do trading.
Yes I agree with you that there is no doubt about this that gambling is a professional activity, trading can be consider as profession, because in trading you need good study analysis and trading skill with previous experience, while in gambling you need just your luck and nothing else.
However you gain knowledge and make trades, luck too is needed to give better profit. The person who get into trade over the past few days need just the investment to buy, the increasing price automatically gives the profit on selling. Here luck is the factor which decides the success. Whether gambling or trading, to certain extent luck is truly important similar to strategies made through researches.
Well i think lucks leans more on the gambling part than when you trade. As was indicated earlier, being a trader is a legitimate, serious profession as to being a gambler. Anyone could be a good trader by researching and having information about alt coins and how it moves. Your chances of earning also grows bigger the longer ypu're exposed to trading. While with gambling, this can also be appliccable but on certain games only. Though both is affected by how lucky you can be, trading puts a lot more control in your own hands