I still think trading has the best possible outcome compared to sports betting. The risk factor in gambling is just too high, and it could always be a trap, so you will never know. It's way different in trading where you could pull out anytime you want and save yourself from losses. There's no trap. It's just people trading consistently or those who suddenly come and buy or sell. Now, the problem has always been how to predict those outcomes, and both have a difficult way to do it.
Still, I do believe that trading is better than gambling but we must be educated well if we want to succeed in trading, unlike how it goes with sports betting where you could analyze as deep as you want and still lose in the end.
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. No matter how small the profit in trading is, it's never by luck but skill. In gambling, you might not have the knowledge of the game but your first time might give you a big win because of luck.
As for me it looks the same both for trading and gambling. The main idea is to be good in what you do. If i`m ok in sport betting - i think that it is much more profitable than trading, and it is true for me, because, as i said, i`m bad in trading. But the same time trader get good profit from trading and laughs at gamblers profit.