I can assure you that good traders know what they are doing and manage their way to success, unlike gambling, which is highly luck-based. It's basically betting.
How you can be sure that trading is different than gambling

, trading itself is highly luck based, you can't predict current war that caused market to dump so hard, if you do you would've shorted it.
You can try technical analysis but most of them are self fulfilling prophecy, at most they increase odd from 0.50 to 0.51. In literal sense both are the same speculation on probability.
Except trader just want to be recognized differently

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