Holding bitcoin is not the same thing as trading bitcoin. Gambling and trading are not the same thing too. Trading require you to learn trading skills but gambling require just some strategies. Trading can be risky like gambling, but they are not the same thing. If the price of bitcoin fall already, you can invest for months or years and you will most likely gain.
Trading is risky like gambling but not as risky as gambling. When a trader makes a wrong entry in trading then his balance is not 0 and he has a chance to recover the loss by holding those coins. But in case of gambling, if one makes a wrong decision, his balance immediately becomes 0 and if he wins the bet, he gets the profit according to the odds. So these two things are not the same there is a big difference between them. However, leverage trading can be said to be a form of gambling, but spot trading is never like gambling
There is no decision-making in gambling unless you are betting on a sports event, but if you are playing a game, it is all based on your luck because all you do is click a button and wait to see the outcome, if you are lucky, you will get a win and if you are unlucky at that particular time, you will lose the bet. When it comes to trading, if you are trading in the spot market, you basically have the possibility to hold your assets even if they are in loss so that you can sell them when the price recovers.
And, when you are trading in futures, you should make trades based on research and analysis and then decide which way the market will move, you can choose lower leverage to lower the risk of getting liquidated and you should have a tight stop-loss to avoid losing a lot of money in case the market moves the opposite way.