Trading is very versatile that comprises of various trading styles, methods to achieve success and earn profits, while investing is buying and holding basically a chunk of different asset classes and earn profits in long run which could take days and weeks, even months. It really depends on your personal choice what you opt for. Trading if done with discipline and few rules like risk management, using different strategies to trade in different market conditions can be profitable, however if trading is taken with emotions, most of the people loss money. Investment is less risky, however i think there are few risks in investment as well like if invested amount is of no value anymore because the project was a scam or it didn't succeed. So to invest in any project, some research should be done so that the risk of losing funds is minimised. Only chose projects which have good fundamentals.