I've heard so many people say, I want to invest in trading, so many traditional workers(9 - 5 job workers) does this as a side hustle without really understanding what exactly trading crypto or forex is actually.

I came across a friend who said, I think forex trading (I'm also including futures crypto trading) is gambling, I asked him why, he went on to explain that, "I went to my uncle's who is a strong and successful football gambler, you know all those that give 80% accurate predictions, yeah, he is one of them, when I got to his house, I saw his sets of computers he uses to gamble, I saw different charts similar to that of forex (again including both futures), I saw different data gathering sites, he was analyzing these charts using different data to give accurate predictions and just like forex, some are more accurate than the other". I remember thinking back then, "he might be right here, If you place a trade saying this asset will go up or go down, I think it's similar to placing a bet on if buyers will win or sellers will win". But then I went into the meaning of gambling.

Gamble means taking a risk for anticipated or potential gain or reward. now the keyword here is anticipated or potential, here, the gain or reward is anticipated and not definite, that is to say, your expectations are not certain, comparing it to trading we can say it's the same. Then I paused again and asked, but if this is it, then life itself is a gamble right, but another definition says, risking money for anticipated monetary gain, hmmm and that is definitely similar to sports gambling.

Now what is investment, this is a placement of Capital with the expectations of making profit, well therr in no way trading is this right, I mean you're not just placing or depositing your capital for growth over time right, I mean, while trading, you're either buying or selling, wagering buyers against sellers, screaming, let the best team win 😂😂.

But here is my input, I believe trading is neither both, trading is a kind of business venture, this business is known as trade, here you buy and sell digital assets in a market environment provided by a trading firm(brokers or CEXS). Trading it's literally just buying and selling and making profit or loss which is the most basic definition of business trade.
with this, I've concluded part 1, stay tuned for part 2 where we will discuss the pecks, the waves, the retracement (this is me being figurative) in trading