You only get confused if you have knowledge of trading but if you have no knowledge of trading, there is no way for you to get confused between the two options of either just accumulating bitcoins or trading bitcoins when the one you can only actually do is to accumulate bitcoins. The confusion will arise when an individual both has knowledge investing and also knows how to trade. Even as a trader it will be wiser for you to just be accumulating bitcoin if you notice that your success rate in trading is not so much and that is you are losing more than you are profiting from trading. Instead of continuing to reduce and loose money to the market, it is better you pause trading and try accumulating bitcoins while you make attempts to improve the knowledge you have on trading with the plans to improve your profit by reducing losses when you start trading again.