I wanted to attend for extra moral classes for day trading but the instructor who happened to be my friend told me that I should not go for full time trading but I can only trade once a while to have fun because trading can make someone to lose enough funds so I left trading for investment but only trade to have fun.
Yes we all agree that the both are for profit making buy investment is much more better than trading because in trading you can lose your money just a few seconds but you can lose your investment in few seconds but hours or days and even at that, you won't lose them if your are for long term investor. Therefore I like investment to trading.
It's good you wanted to learn more and been under your friend gives you more advantage because if he his really your friend he will not want you to fail. And wanting to learn more is a good idea, so going full hand is dangerous because you can also lose your full money, and spot is not really that risky compare to does that are doing futures but even futures if not that people are to greedy their leverages and stop loss that can help you reduce the chances of losing money, and that is the most important thing because if you don't manage the usage well then the high your funds will drop, its not a must that you have to trade everyday because of the while process before starting your trade. And trading is risky but how you understand and follow instructions will determine the safety of your funds. And long term investment those not have to much work to do. Just buy and hold and when the price is high all you need to do is just to sell. Their are people that don't want to learn but they want to trade their case is different and those are the people that will say trading is bad forgetting that it was all their fault.