Both are profitable and have different characteristics of earnings, in trading you must have work 24/7 just to monitor the movements of coins as what you invested. So stressful in trading even though have a huge profit on it but you need to work hard in trading. Unlike having a faucet your just waiting and collect small amount given by faucet it takes a decades before you earn huge amount. Why you did not chose both faucet while trading i think that's productive way of earning in bitcoin.