Most of the time my success on gambling happens when the market is at the bottom or when it is moving bullish. But this doesn't last for a long, so I never think of the market changes when I decide to gamble. I just go gamble, make profit then loss it and further feel bad of losing the hard earned bucks.
If so, maybe you can gamble when the market is at the bottom and stop gambling right before the market starts moving bullish. Maybe you can make a profit from that so you can stop gamble right away and make money. You should know when to stop gambling before the situation is changing and if that happens, you can not make a profit instead of getting lost. Many of us do not know about that and that makes us losing money.
That's a very complicated thing to do, better now gamble at all and just be a trader if you will stop gambling when the price is bullish. We are gambling to have fun or to try to improve ourselves to be profitable in gambling, therefore focus is very important and if you think of the bullish and bearish market, then that would distract your focus for sure.
Rather than gamble with the market, it is better to learn trading to have more chances to make money. We do not always profit in trading if we do not analyze, so that will be difficult. Maybe he should not use his money for gambling and only focus on trading because he will focus only on making money if he is doing that. While in his break, he can play gambling using the other money. That will be better for him to separate that two things.