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Depends from the persons perspectives and knowledge, if you have a good understanding with future trade or gambling you may have that chance to win some, especially if you have that good bankroll/money management, where you can set your limits and you are capable of controlling your emotions, both future trade and gambling may work with you, but always remember that big risk to which commonly being neglect by people who are trying to find some luck.
Stepping either inside gambling or future trade will have a big risk with your money, not a good venue for people who are not a fan of having that risk as most of the time they will be control by emotions and possible to lose from time to time.
Everything depends on our understanding of future trading and gambling so that we can make a profit. And I agree that we also have to be able to manage the money well because futures trading and gambling can cause us to lose money in a short time.
As long as you can accept the risk and are willing to learn more, I think you can use gambling and futures trading and maybe even more opportunities to profit in futures trading. But once again, without learning more, we cannot improve our trading or gambling skills.
Without deeper knowledge, the chance is slim to win in both sides, but likewise, if you know how to work with gambling or with future trading the chance is good to make money, not all or there's only a few gamblers who can manage to earn from both gambling and futures but it's not impossible that you can if you equipt yourself by right knowledge and do your research the way that will give you more hints and not just placing your bets or your position basing only from what you heard from someone who call themselves experts.
Your effort to find good venues to learn more is what will help you to win decent from either gambling or future trades.