Traders are making more money than investors but don't forget that they also loss more money than investors but people often shares their success and hide their loss. Only experts can get profit from day trading and a part from this its become hard for new commers to win occasionally.
Currently one can get benefit from both trading and investment because more the market is fluctuated more the traders are getting success and also investors invest more during bear to get its results in Bull season.
In crypto trading, every day is not good because sometimes like today it's a bearish time in spot trading you can't make a good profit but for 3 days or weekly I'm sure that you should be able to make a profit rather than a loss. Day trading is pretty risky same in future trading it's too volatile 1% to 3% rule as risk management is always what we do to make sure we only risk 1 to 3 percent of our capital and to make sure we only trade on swings.
For those investors and holders as we can see on crypto sometimes the price drops more than 10% or higher since holders already made a profit while holding the 10% or more are wasted if you sell it before it drops. You can save the 10%+ and buy again later if you know where to exit that's a trader who does.
Your point of view is interesting because personally, first of all I don't do futures trading, the truth is I don't know how to do it, I've seen some strategies out there but it's something I can't do and the truth is I don't take much risk, I'm one of the who trade and hope that the movement does not happen, if it does not happen then I try again, previously doing my analysis and see what emerges, of course this is a maximum of 8%, I never do more than that, it seems to me that it is too much However, the points of view you speak are very accurate, intraday and I go out that catches my attention, but it still seems to me that it is for short time intervals, I am more focused on doing long-term trading because it gives me time to react Faced with a sudden market movement, it is clear that I am not on the PC all day watching every movement.