This is so true, one of my friend started trading in 2021 bull market, invested peanut sum, got good profits, lost all capital soon after, started investing his salary money, and now he's running at loss, lol.
Now, he's hoping 2025 will be a good year for crypto and he'll recover everything.
Yes, because trading is basically high risk, the efforts made must be complex. It is not easy for someone who wants to be really consistent in trading and consistently take profits for beginners. Unless they are really persistent and have more abilities, they may be able to develop into pro traders, as long as they can really learn the strategy, and are not greedy in determining their profits.
However, if you are a beginner and are not too focused on trading, investing is the best way. It also still depends on what coin is taken for investment. Because if you invest in shit coins, the results will be the same, it will be bad. Because most or even all shit coins only rely on hype, and when it's over, well, the hype will really disappear and then the shit coins will end up being dead coins that are no longer valuable.
Therefore, if you want to hold, just in Bitcoin which is clearly valuable. If you want altcoins, choose certain top coins, such as ETH.