@Stompix you are trying to make all things looks so complicated for me for your answer by saying trading is gambling. Is there any book sold out there that speaks about becoming successful in gambling?
Just go to any major bookseller and search for a guide or course on gambling there are hundreds of them, just as there are hundreds for lottery tickets and thousands for poker courses or blackjack.
Traders who think they have found a way to corner the market are just falling in the same category as gamblers who have found a "system", 90% of traders fail in the market, and trading companies are trying to hide that but in reality, there is no way to save your ass when the market goes wrong completely in a way never seen before, think of the great crashes when traders where committing suicide and think of events like oil going negative.
Every single bet is just your gamble that past performance as described by an indicator would be the same in the next day or month.
It's as simple as that!
Crypto traders are even worse, they fail to understand that most of those trades are not profitable because whatever TA they use, they are profitable because cryptos have gained in value immensely, even a hamster trading cryptocurrencies would have made money in a bull run.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/25/1040683057/crypto-trading-hamster-goxx-warren-buffet-s-p-500Anyone who says it's about knowledge and skill, good, show me the price for Bitcoin in a week a month, and a year based on your TA, and after first wondering why people despite using TA come with different answers let's see how off they were! Of course, traders don't like the comparison, it hurts their ego, but that's what they do, they gamble based on the past price just as people gamble based on Portugal's previous euro performance.