Both are good in their own way. It will just depends on the attitude of a person. If you are a person that doesn't want to work from time to time, holding is the best for you especially if you are holding decent amount. Now if you want to rake a risk and make a much faster profit, then go trading especially if you're a non-busy person. You can focus so much in trading.
Trading really helps everyone as long as we knew how to trade properly and we do know how to cope in any circumstances like what is happening now, if we can always see a brighter part in evry dark days, then we can deal with trading with no doubt.