Of course there is a difference. Trading is a risk taking where you can make a profit or lose money according to experience but gambling is unpredictable and you can lose your money surely. Gambling is mostly based on luck and even experienced gamblers can lose a lot of money. Experienced traders are more likely to make a profit from trading as they apply their strategies and are ready to buy regularly in every price trend. In the Forex market, any experienced trader can earn a decent amount of money every week based on practical knowledge. Gambling is almost entirely based on luck. Here you may be able to make potential decisions through experience but you have to rely on luck to win. The chances of losing are high.
Anything that will bring you profits will definitely involve in a risk, and is only the trading that have risk management, gambling you can't minimise risk, you can lose since is a game of luck you can't predict the outcome sometimes. Trading always give more opportunity of getting profits then doing gambling, because in trading if you have understood the strategy have enough experience about it anytime you stake, the market can probably go to your way and you will definitely get profit. And trading is more better then gambling because in trading you can be perfect on it and be getting profits back to back and your loses won't be much. since you have get enough knowledge and get different strategies you are using to stake. And in gambling he don't depend on who is perfect because all about gambling is lucky and if he favour you don't mean you are perfect on it, you can win today and next day lose back to back so anyone that understands crypto very well he can different the both you can't join them together.