Day trading & gambling do have similar features. Short term investing in blockchain does trump both of the latter I believe.
Indeed I will agree with you on this because short term trading is way risky as same as gambling and believe me I have had a taste of both and the results that yeilded from both field are the particular ones am not too proud of and I wouldn't ever advice anyone who is not an expert in trading to ever even venture into it. It's more preferable to just buy little coins and save and hope for the market to boom once more
You can't really blame trading for the mistakes you've made yourself, it's you who wasn't knowledgeable or experienced about the market and couldn't handle the trades very well which is probably why you had to face losses, and I'm pretty sure that you gave up after a single loss which is why you say that gambling and trading are similar which is not true. Even if you are making short-term trades, you can still manage to gain significant profits over time.
Gambling is totally dependent on your luck while trading requires knowledge and experience, and it isn't necessary for someone to have all their trades ending with profit, you will face losses as well but it is not like gambling where your losses will surely be more than your wins in the long run.
Even on just trying out to mind and compare on both things about whats gambling and whats trading, then you could really see the significant difference among the two on which we can say that trading could really
be only called as gambling on the time that you dont really make out any analysis towards your trading dealing because we know on how crucial is on making out those analysis before you would make out those positioning which it is really that totally different when you do gamble literally with those games which it doesnt really require out such thing unless if you are dealing with strategic type of gambling then
it is really that significant that analysis and experience does really have an advantage.
Both things have risks but in speaking about longer aspect or something that could bring out fortune if done well and smartly, then trading is really that something
worth that you should really make yourself that dealing with but in speaking of leisure then we know on where we do make ourselves
that touch up.