A trader is a market capitalist who studies the direction of assets with the aim of taking profit based on changes in the price of the asset or assets. A trader is a reader and a studies. Anything outside reading and studying (research) is plain gambling. A trader can be positional, swinger, scalper or eventually trader. We can still group traders based in the tool the use in making prediction. Fundamental traders deal on news and technical traders deal on tools made available to spot market trends , peaks, direction and state. A good trader keeps emotions far from them when making trading decisions. Trading is fun but the risk is no respected of anybody not even the pro-traders
All traders certainly have a goal to achieve, which is profit, this is what really differentiates it from gambling, because the goal of gambling is to seek pleasure. Every trader must go through stages, the initial stage of loss is certain. However, from these losses we can learn to be better and of course in the end will become a positional trader, swinger, scalper as you mentioned.
So actually in trading, the most important asset of a beginner trader or a professional trader is not their money, but their mindset. Because mindset is a collection of attitudes in carrying out trading activities both in terms of views, philosophy towards trading itself. So even if you have any capital, if your trading mindset is chaotic, it's just a matter of time before your capital runs out or you will definitely go bankrupt.