Some people buy Bitcoin and they hold for a long time so that when the price push up, they will sell and rejoice in profit, while some people are trading Bitcoin, they are buying and selling almost instantly to get profit on a short time. I really want to know whom you guys refer to as investors, is it a person that buys and keeps buying through out the bear season with his intention to sell in bull market season OR you refer investors as the person that trade Bitcoin repeatedly for short time profit? Can both of them be seen investors and for what reason?
Lol. didn't expect that it's now complicated to be called an investor.
As long as you've invested, long-term or short-term, you're an investor, the idea of an investments is to secure something valuable in the future, to have a good profit from it and both long-term and short-term gives you that. Long-term are those who believed into the idea, they're the reason why it keeps going and the reason why it has a good foundation until now because they hodl for long term and aiming for a good value. Short term investors are those who take advantage of market's behavior and let me tell you this, some of the short-term investors are also long-term investors, they have stocks of blue chips that aren't used for short trading.
In my opinion I think trading and short term investing are two different things even if they might seem to be similar in how there are practiced.
Trading is the buying and selling of goods, services commodities etc. While investing is the act of putting (money) into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the expectation of achieving a profit. As their definitions imply we can see that investing and trading are totally two different things. Short term investors are birthed from those that have low risk tolerance generally or in a particular asset! While trading is typically buying and selling of a commodity to make profits! That's why it involves more analysis and time to master than actual investing.