you quite miss what i was trying to explaining, i am not saying online trading is not a gambling it is but under certain conditions. i am saying there is a point at which a normal activity like trading moves up in the scale from 1 to 100.
I can’t say putting part of my money in index fund is considered gambling( it is investing). also I can’t say buying a house and sell it once it is price goes up is a gambling (it is a trading). you can say it metaphoricly for the risk that is involved if you are in a country where it is market expected to collapse and you are putting all your money on that single investment or trade …etc.
saying trading is gambling is not correct, I think to judge if a trading activity is gambling or not two factors should be considered:
1: risk: are you trading with part of your money, are you using a leverage? if yes what it is 1:2 or 1:500 ? are you trading for your self or for a company that monitor your activity. if the risk is too high it is a gambling regardless to the reppetion.
2: the repetition : is it once for an open period of years “investing” , is it for a period of one year or two, a month or few months, this clould be consider trading if the risk is low. but if the repetion goes up to trade each few minute or seconds then regardless how small the risk is, it is a gambling.
finally there is a big scale of different combinations between the risk and repetition in trading ( whether it is done physically or through an electronic way) but at which level we can consider it gambling frankly i don’t know, and here i think my best guess is to monitor the feelings and emotional effects that this activite provoke if it has real noticiable impact then it is gambling.