Exactly, trading is better and more profitable than gambling if you have understand when to open a trade and come up with your own strategy that gives you profit.
Sure, trading can never be compared with gambling. And of course the difference is very clear, is just unlike as you said about strategy and of course strategy plays a very big role in trading, and also acquiring enough knowledge is also very important in trading. Because this are the basic things that can help you to scale through, while in gambling even if you acquire all the whole knowledge about
how gambling. if you're not lucky there's no way you can be able to experience win, this is why gambling is purely based on luck. But in trading so far as you have gotten all the necessary information about how it works, of course you can have some confident when trading.