I think trading is addictive in a way that even if we're losing through our shorts/longs, we still continue to do futures and we're not learning from that mistake. While me, I've learned it a long time ago already and that's the reason why I am no longer doing futures. At some point, it also becomes addictive when you're lucky with your trades and you're winning a lot. And that's because you have an idea that's how it is easy to make money if you have the capital and the market is with you. But once it turns around, you'd see how bad it goes and that addiction will lose you more money just like in gambling.
I don't really think that trading can be that addictive when you are losing money to the market. Maybe it's those that are making money from trading that can be seen as having addiction in the market because they are always trading to make money for themselves.
The comparison is like with the gamblers, like us. Even if we're losing despite that we know that gambling is going to make us lose more money. Traders who are addictive on it already, win or lose, they'll still and continue to trade. While there's an advantage for those profitable traders but addiction of trading isn't only limited to them who gets to win on this market.
I agree, not only to those who managed to make a winning trades but moreso to those who are still chasing for the best and fit strategy to experienced a winning trades, though there are strategy that may work depends on what type of a trader a person more on emotional and money managements.
If you are always losing money, I don't think you can get an addiction than leaving trading to go the other things that will be profitable
The crave for recovery is strong in trading as well and that's why traders would like to recover their losses and pushes them to continue that ends up into addiction.
indeed, unless you value money and you don't want to suffer for more then better to make a hard stop and find an alterntive ways to earn money and stay out from this venue of investment.