Trading bitcoins would probably get you more profit if you know what you are doing and don't have mining equipment.
Mining isn't very profitable anymore unless you buy equipment, etc. Trading would be better if you don't want to purchase a miner, but trading also takes quite a lot of skill.
But trading has a big risk because when we wrongly predict the price and wrong take the position then we will experience losses, different from the mining that would get results and there will be no lost.