Yes, trading is addictive, but the only difference is that its addiction is not as rampant/tough as that of gambling and others.
The reason is that a bigger money is involved in trading, unlike gambling, where you can continue to gamble a little or a big amount, or a mix of the two, without control. The money in trading always teaches people that lesson and forces them to quit it more easily.
How do you know you are addicted to trading? Just as with other addictions, you will be unproductively and uncontrollably do it.
In trading, with every trade you do you learn something which help you in creating a future strategy. It's a fact that trading comes with experience, you have to bear loses in the start. There is no guideline that tells you how to do trading effectively, one has to figure out himself that how to handle trading properly. Whereas gambling is a different thing, where you rarely win nor you learn anything for future.
Achieving success in trading is never an easy matter, before each trade, the market has to be observed deeply, and due to mistakes in market research, a trader is not able to use the right strategy at the right time, due to which he has to suffer losses at that moment.
Trading is much more difficult than we expect, in the first situation, At the first stage, a new trader thinks trading is very easy, but in reality, it never same. And in the first situation, a new trader will definitely face losses, but he has to use that time to learn trading more better and deeply.
If a trader can avoid becoming emotional due to losses, Rather he can learn from mistakes, then he will definitely be able to learn trading in a real way. You have to learn new lessons from each new mistake, then at some point you will definitely be experienced.