Trading and Gambling are both same for me, as both are risky and waste of time, both involves risk of your money, which you can loose at any stage, so its better to stay away from both.
There are both the same kind of investment, but there are not the same giving way of profit in terms of a short term and long term investment. Because gambling always gives losses of money most of the time.
to me although there is a big difference between the two. as we do not consider gambling as a proper business and most of the people play gambling for on special occasions and not as regular, they even investing money and play it for makin money but in fact they still consider that they can get pleasure and enjoyment while playing gambling, but while we are talking about trading so trading is a pure business and we always take it as serious and use trading for making as our future business.