Before we decide to trade, I need to gain enough knowledge about the trade. If I don't understand the trade well, I will never live up to the expectations that I have with the trade. But in trading, we must trade with the risk that is in the trade. Many times if we don't get success, then we lose the trade patience. Patience is very important. We must be patient before trading. If we can trade patiently, of course in the future. We will get success through trade. We always have to have a long-term plan. Sometimes we are in a hurry. We should not be in a hurry when trading. There are many people who trade, they are in a hurry, they think that they will become millionaires overnight, but it is not like that. Of course, you will gain money in trading, but for that, you need to be patient enough.
Indirectly we can conclude that in the end trading is no better and even very much more risky than investing so we don't need to think too much about trading because sooner or later you will also lose in trading so by seeing that switch to investing without having to look at trading.
In addition, it seems that the discussion of trading will not be too connected when juxtaposed with the previous discussion because from the beginning we always discuss about investment not trading.
I don't want to assume they are bad traders but indeed with your narrative we also actually need to realize that doing trading especially for those people who are new to bitcoin and just learning the investment system, it will indeed be misleading because in the end investing and trading are different things and cannot be put together in a discussion.
There is far too much black or white in your post. There are many important aspects to consider when someone decides to be a trader instead of an investor. It's as well a question of frequency and available time. Investing means you want to build a basket of assets or one asset at a time that you believe will increase in value in the long run. In trading you try to exploit swings in the market and you don't really care whether an asset goes up or down unless you are simultaneously holding the same asset you are trading because you believe in it.
I suppose there are quite successful traders out there, but if it is not for luck, then it usually means they are putting in far more time than the average market participant. When someone calls themselves a trader, I have a well defined picture in my head how the activity should be looking like and executed. Clicking buy and sell a few times a day doesn't make anyone a trader. In my opinion it is someone who has more or less nonstop ab idea where the market stands, what information is to be expected in the near term and what has been said about an asset in the nearest past, whether there are rulings or laws about to be passed that could affect the price, has a deep understanding of economics, puts in effort to understand how the price of an asset can be affected by developments in other asset or debt classes. Some of the traders believe in technical analysis, which I think is mostly esoteric.
It's not like sooner or later traders will lose. The issue is that many of the guys considering themselves traders aren't traders. I don't know what they are, but a trader earns that name through putting in the effort that trading is associated with. If someone decides to try and outcompete the market, then that is a lot of work to do and of course never comes with guarantees no matter how much effort you put into it. Though it is more likely that more effort leads to more success.
Everyone here who has tried to outcompete the market in the past or is trying it these days should be honest with themselves. I remember when BTC had its first bull runs that literally everyone thought they are genius traders because no matter what they did, it couldn't go wrong - until the first serious corrections happened. Many then felt like catching a falling knife when it went from $20k to $3k and the reality is that those with a strict DCA plan outplayed 99.9% of so called traders.
Maybe when there are these extended periods of sideward price movement, then trading might make sense for some here. But again, nobody ever knows whether the current sideward movement should be expected to be an extended period of sideward movement. You only know for sure in hindsight. Trading out of BTC believing it will drop 5% to then buy back into it can be and has been a costly mistake for many.