Only 10% of traders make profit from trading, the rest always run at loss in the market. This is because trading is so complex and plays with our emotions. To be a professional trader is not easy but to be a long term hodler is easy as long as you don't over invest in bitcoin but use only your discretionary income to invest in bitcoin.

Hodlers are making profits with ease because their bitcoin portfolio generates profits for them overtime. Unlike traders that will pass through stress and emotions and might still run at loss. Trading is risky and can lead to great loss, but hodli is easy and limits losses, since the price of bitcoin increases overtime.

If a person does not have an idea about trading they should not attempt it at all. Hodling does not require any skills and you're taking on little risk if you're not buying with borrowed funds.

For someone who has experience with trading, they do not have to choose one or the other. If you're making some profit trading you can set aside a little amount for it and lock the rest up in cold storage. If you're not profitable, you should quit trading.

Trading is for those wanting to try timing markets, and holding long-term can work, but enough already with this you cannot lose talk.  Bitcoin is volatile, and no one really knows the road ahead.   

Lets be real, stockpiling Bitcoin might make you rich, of course, but nothing is guaranteed. Its a spin of the roulette wheel.

Neither. It's best to ride the waves of market cycles and buy during a bear market to sell during the bull market that comes after. If you are trading daily/weekly/monthly, you will just lose money to random movements that are impossible to predict, if you are just buying and buying, you are taking a huge risk and the profit is smaller than investing in cycles because you are not taking profits and reinvesting them for more profits.

It depends on person to person like if the person has well skills about the analysis like fundamental analysis to technical analysis then there is a possibility to have profit on short-term trading for that person. i will also say in case of these people they can do the both at a same like short-term trading with their skills and accumulating bitcoin for long-term with dca method no one will stop him.
But for the beginners and those who are not skilled at technical analysis for the the best option is to making the investment with a proper DCA method this will make the risk low for him. So now it's ups to that person decide what skill he have and what will be wise to him choose.

You don’t have to be confused,  just do what works best for you. If you prefer holding, then do that, and if you know trading works for you, then go for it, but you should know trading is not really easy compared to holding. If you want to be a trader, you have to take learning as a continuous process. You should know the risk is higher. You won't always be making profits, sometimes you will have to lose, but make sure your profits are more than your losses as a trader. There are other things you should know if you want to be a trader, but holding is not that difficult and has a lesser risk.

Some people knew about bitcoin years ago, but they didn't invest in it because they didn't have confidence in it. Most of them were thinking bitcoin was a scam, and some don't really believe bitcoin will be so successful. Most of those people are really regretting why they didn't invest earlier, and people who don't invest now will end up regretting later in the future why they didn't invest in bitcoin now.

There is nothing to be confused about, you can decide to do both. If you are a professional trader, then you can decide to trade with some of your money, and you can use the rest of your money to accumulate bitcoin and hold it.

The answer to your question will be based on choice and level of experience. Some Bitcoin traders are making lots of money and they might consider accumulating as a waste of time. Some people are not patient enough to wait for a long time before they make a profit, so they prefer to be traders. Just as others have said, trading is risky and needs a lot of skills to be successful. If you don't have these important trading skills, you might end up losing all your investment.

Accumulating and hodling Bitcoin is easier and also profitable. You don't need much skill to know how to keep your coin. Understanding the Bitcoin system, wallets and important security procedures are basic information that can make you a successful long-term investor. It is important to know how to protect your wallet from criminals.

I think that it depends on the person itself.

I think that trading can be beneficial for those looking for quick profits. It is definitely riskier than just holding but if you need the money right away then you can do this. However if you have some patience on you and can wait months even years until finally something comes out of your holdings then that’s fine too.

Trading is profitable, only if you understand the basics of analysis and quotation. The question should be - how efficient should a person be, to become a successful trader? Otherwise, I'd advise that you back out and HODL coin for the safety of your funds. I definitely did traded for sometime and made profit for the first few months (including loses), but it took away my time since I'd always prefer day trading.

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on the other hand, HODLing requires less attention and skills.. All you gotta do is set up a hardware wallet - a type that would regenerate your priv keys offline (Trezor preferably)

I'm not sure you really know what percentage of traders are able to make a profit from trading. Do you have data about that?

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Trading and investing are just choices that are both profitable and detrimental in certain circumstances. You never know if you will actually make a profit from your investment in the long term in bitcoin - IMO, that is a risk you still need to consider so you are not 100% safe putting all your money in bitcoin.

Traders are more likely to be able to withdraw their profits and enjoy the results of trading compared to long-term investors - of course this refers to investment risks where even investors themselves do not know for sure what will happen in the future to their investments. They can lose access to the wallet even if they have secured the key or seed - while traders can withdraw their profits when they convert their bitcoins to fiat that very day. But in my opinion - long term investment is more profitable from a psychological perspective and also the potential for large price growth is good to consider.