Well, have a trading system that is completely different from gambling. you can control what you seek income from trading. basically trading is simply buying and selling. it is just like buying gold, and wait for the price to be rising. whereas gambling is a game that risked valuable objects.
But you cannot ignore the risk involved with the trading when comparing to gambling. Yes, both trading and gambling has their own level of risks associated with them.
In few aspects, trading is similar with gambling. Level of risk is one of them. When we your neglecting the technical analysis of trading, our trading will go in gambling way otherwise both are completely different.