trading can be risky but if you don't trade with forms that take charge back and get proper ID it's usually fine. That's been my experience. I think mining would of been more profitable, now it seems you would need too much money for a proper setup and even then it would take while to get your ROI. I'd stick with trading for now, given the opportunity I would start a little mining farm on some new crypto coin for the heck of it.
It's seems to hear funny bro. Are you assuring the mining will be best platform than trading to make bitcoin. If you see any mining option, you need to wait to achieve the profit for long time. Cost of electricity speaks as burden in this platform but cloud-mining is scam attempts as you refer a talks in the forum. It means overall mining will not provide good profit or some or ponzis. Instead you do trading make profit with price change in the chart.