Sure profits is a factor with every investment, since you should not want to invest in something that you have an expectation of losing value over time. There is also a difference between focusing on short-term profits versus having a long term perspective, and sure there is an expectation of profits, but profits is not as much of a motive, since profits are kind of assumed with something like bitcoin (even though at the same time the profits are not guaranteed), but if a person is investing into bitcoin 4-10 years or longer, there likely could be expectations that he is going to have more options down the road, which is largely based on bitcoin holding its value and/or not being debased in ways that fiat systems are debased.. . ...
To buttress your points more, I wouldn’t deny that there many who are actually into bitcoin to earn a profit, but just as you said I can say there are also lots of people that today they invest into bitcoin for the sole purpose of its advantage of been a store of value. A clear example is those locking up their bitcoin as an inheritance assets, in the past it was mostly done by buying or investing in precious metals like gold or any capital investment that doesn’t have to be related to fiat currency simply because of fear of inflation. Looking at this assets used you can clearly say that bitcoin ticks many boxes to been used for same purposes and that’s why we see many Bitcoin addresses today been untouched for years (even those some assume to be lost, but are not). When people see this they simply assume this address owner is just storing the bitcoins there for sole purpose of making profits which is not true but just an extra advantage gotten for long term storage.
All these really do come into play but, it’s hard to imagine that these beginner traders or low capital traders aren’t doing enough to generate needed funds.
The need to generate these funds has been some of the means by which, people run into trouble of seeking out investors to fund them with needed capitals to trade with and eventually, they loss this money due to lack of experience.
You might be able to manage risk on a personal term but, when your trading with funds that aren’t yours, the risk is elevated with the need to succeed at all cost so as to fulfill set goals and promises.
Using your own personal money that you can not afford to lose is a red flag when you use it for trading, now going to trade with borrowed capital is even a bigger red flag than the other, we have seen traders who do this mostly end up not only in loss but also In huge debt. The main way to even be a successful trader or investor is to have patience and you can’t tell me that someone who has borrowed funds will have such patience which is required.
The thing is not everyone is going to be a trader, once your financial status isn’t upto that level you can simply do other things or offer other services to earn this bitcoin itself