It's not a profession, if it was then I should be putting in a lot of ours into bitcoin investing including my day job, you can do the investment passively so I don't get the idea why it should be considered a profession when that's not the case for most of the bitcoin investors here in the forum. I think that you're even doing it wrong when you do bitcoin full-time, unless you're a trader that can consistently make money out of your trading, you're probably going to be fine but if you're not that then you're probably not going to make it big and it would be a difficult endeavor for you. Also, this thread would probably fit better in the Trading Discussion more than the Bitcoin Discussion. Regarding gamblers, they're not really in the same realm with investors, they can't play the waiting game and the thing that they do is that they're almost always going to end up losing because in gambling, you will always be guaranteed to lose that money no matter what you do.