I largely agree with the premise that trading tends to be a losing game, and the reason is because the vast majority of peeps who attempt it do it in a manner in which they are attempting to predict BTC's short term price direction, which is also known as gambling.

If you engage in a kind of trading that either does NOT attempt to predict BTC's price direction or at least only engages in bare minimum prediction attempts, then in a market, such as bitcoin, you can profit from such a system without hardly even thinking about it.  Anyhow, as you already suggested, I have beaten aspects of this horse to death.... so I can hold off a little bit on my beating efforts for the time being.