I think you can make both work, but trading will take a bit more work to get experienced enough to turn a profit. If you're going to involve yourself in TA every day looking at charts, even a novice trader can become experienced quite quickly. Holding is pretty decent overall though, there are lots of projects I just pick up and forget about in cold storage. Check on em 6 months to a year from now and then decide where to go from there. I still day trade, but never with coins I'm holding.