It depends on a person what he can afford. Trading could be an opportunity to them who have small amount but sharp knowledge in this field but if a person can afford both then investing is the best option. Cause it needs lesss knowledge in comparison of trading which requires deep knowledge. Otherwise it can be a high risk activity for a person. I like investing cause i still have a lot to from for being a good trader
Both is the best option that one can do. But in able to be good in both of it, I think you need to be an experienced trader first and you'll get to understand the risk for both of them. An investor can remain and still be an investor without doing any trades and be good at it but he can't be good at trading if he stays an investor. While a trader can take risks as well and do the trades daily it's most likely he's just doing typical investor things. Quite confusing but I hope that I have explained it quite well.
In my opinion it totally depends on the nature of the person. If you are young looking for a career into the markets then there is not much options for you, you will have to make trades on a daily basis or a shorter time frame. And on the other hand investor can be anybody. Any person doing some other job or business can do investing into the cryptoverse. It all basically depends on how much time u can devote to the markets.
Depends on your patience in this market whether you're for the short term or long term. But as said, those two can be applied to both of them but whichever you take, you can't skip the risk that you're taking from it.