Yeah, I wouldn't mix up my work and my hobbies. Each needs concentration, whereas doing both would break it.
Yeah, but you know that your work will keep paying you every time, whereas with gambling you never know....
That's the thing, and many people haven't picked it up, but basically you can't predict the future.
Many people try to do that and fail bad, and some are actually selling those predictions...
have you ever considered that if you can predict a little bit into the future, even as little as 5 minutes it is enough to make you a trillionaire?
quite crazy when you put it in perspective
with trading, or gambling, pick your poison...
there are no consistent future readers.
So we should utilize what we can at the moment - real facts processed with the experience we had.