Surely trading is more preffeard or preferable to Gambling because in gambling no matter the skill involved you are likely to lose more often than win, but in trading skill, you are more likely to make profit than lose ..
If you think that trading and making a profit is so easy, then you are mistaken. According to statistics, 90% of traders lose their money.
As for skills, you just can't do without it in sports betting.
Sure, according to many statistics up to 90% of traders lose their money, so 10% of the market can accumulate capital, but that is already a big difference when you compare trading to gambling, don't you think?
In the case of gambling almost 100% of gamblers are doomed to lose their money in the long term, that is at least 10% worse than trading as an option to profit from speculation and randomness of the markets.
That being said, I have never need a successful trader, actually I have lost money, so I am sadly for now among the 90% who loses their money in the short term.