Sometimes trading could also give you more profit than investing.
It is all about skills, timing and knowledge if you could earn from trading why wouldn't you use it.
Why not use that skills and capital to earn rather than letting it sleep and wait for the profit?
There are lots of factors that can make someone to lose money in trading if care is not taken, there is a major one and that one is not well discussed and brainstorm enough and that's trading portion. As a trader that is starting as beginner or a trader that is not a newbie but still in the process of learning, you don't need to have trades with large portion, start with small portion and see the losses and profits you are making, that way you can increase it with time.
If you are starting a trading for the first time, you have no business using $1k as a portion of your trading, you will get chopped by stop loss continuesly until you have nothing left again. There are times that market can be tricky that if you don't know your ways, youtr stop loss will be triggered all the time and you might not make anything for that day of you are a day trader and s swing trader. Learn to u understand trading with small portion before you go bigger.