day-trading is part of trading styles that have "blessed but also ruined" people's finances just like any other style of trading
Playing dice is also a kind of trading but with negative edge (core argument). You can argue the same for any casino game with negative EV that some will win and some will lose, but the real question is can you make sustainable income from day trading, answer is NO, the math is not on your side.
Yes, there will be occasional winners with longer winning streak, just like in casino, but overall population will make a perfect bell curve as per the odds (which are not in your favor.)
Totally disagree!
When it comes to trying out to make comparison or trying out to say in between gambling and trading then its really that totally different. Yes, when it comes to risks then there's risks and trading would become that gambling at the moment or time that you will be not applying any analysis then this is where you can say that it is gambling. Day trading is risky but i do see that futures will really be that even more riskier. Trading loses is inevitable because market is really that unpredictable and there's no way that we can be able to predict on where price will be going. There are still those who do make day trades on which we know that there are different trading styles on which it could be that daytrading,scalping,swing trades and long term trades.
If you dont like on losing money then better not to trade, as much more on doing gambling. There will those times or moments that you are really that becoming that too optimistic but ending up on having some disappointment. On the time or moment that you deal up with trading then expect you can have those loses. The important thing on here is that you do really lessen up the risks as you do go forward. It is really just that too impossible that you wont be able to learn things along the way.