You should do which one you think will benefit you the most and which one you know is best to do. If you want to accumulate and hold bitcoin for the long term, which is obviously the safest way to profit from bitcoin, you should do that. 
 
Some people feel like holding bitcoin is really a waste of time due to how they feel that they can really make a fortune if they trade it, which many do, but a lot of people have lost their investment due to the wrong timing on the bitcoin market. It's highly volatile nature makes it more risky and harder for its movement to be predicted.

First the title or topic seems more like a question but the content itself says other wise. Perhaps you have concluded already that holding is wise enough than trading but perhaps you might be wrong or right because it's quite an individual thing. You can be comfortable trading crypto and someone else will be comfortable holding. The both are likely to make profit the difference is one is taking more risk than the other and believe me the higher the risk the higher the chance of more profit is.

We can not decide for anyone hence neither trading nor holding for a long term is the best as long as it's not just one person that's in the contest. Everyone has their own pockets and risk management.

Similarly, the most common here is holding which makes you more comfortable even with the volatility of the market. Accumulating bitcoin is mostly the best choice for everyone because of the opportunities that it gives and losses are minimized to the fullest as long as you hold your a prone to profit. All that is most required for profit making is how long one is patient enough to hold the longer you hold especially bitcoin the more profit you will make so holding has always been the choice of the people here and I'm not excluded.

Finally, what I'm saying in essence is if you can trade and make profit don't let our own contributions or perceptions and ideas towards trading influence you to do less you have to goal to reach and none of us will reach that goal for you so if you think you can trade go for it but if not you better stick with accumulation(Hodling)

Because an experienced and good trader does not predict the market. They are disciplined with their trading action and they take action very disciplined. They don't enter the market if they won't see risk and profit ratio from an entry and their target exit is good enough in both potential risk and profit.

They are flexible with their trading action by entering and exit the market and they even are quickly to exit the market if it turns bad and they can accept a draw, minor loss to avoid bigger loss. They have plans for trading and their plans are not depended on market predictions.

HOLD will give very good ROI with Bitcoin. See Bitcoin ROI.
https://casebitcoin.com/charts#roi_chart

I am pretty sure for the majority of people who tried trading bitcoin, ended up with less than if they just held all together. Everyone wants to get rich quick but it’s not that easy.

Throughout the years I’ve seen many people lose their bitcoin stash because they either gambled it on some gambling site, they traded it for some alt that ended up going -99% or they leveraged traded and went bust.

So for those people, which is the majority they would of been better off just holding their bitcoins and not doing anything.

OP, is it better to trade or hold? For me, these are completely different activities. A person who only learned about Bitcoin yesterday cannot engage in trading. At the same time, any beginner can invest and keep Bitcoin for a long time. There's no big science here. So I don't think your question is correct. I know that those people who try to trade for years are not successful every time. You can reframe your post by saying: if you want to lose more Bitcoins, trade; if not, then just hold.

Is that even a question?

If your friends is successful become a businessman and you're successful become a high skilled worker, why he need to close his business and become high skilled worker? or vice versa.

People who buy Bitcoin since 2014 and hold till now are gamblers! Bitcoin was really cheap and no one can predict Bitcoin can be so high like now.

Invest is when the asset relatively stable and it high unlikely will crash, before 2017 Bitcoin is nothing stable.

Both are different, and this is a subjective question because not all are engaged into trading, and not all wants holding Bitcoin for a very long time probably because they're impatient that they prefer trading.

Wise to do? It depends on your skills. Are you a good trader? Go trade your Bitcoins. If not then just go buy, accumulate, and hold Bitcoins. If you know how to trade, and you're profitable in it then go trading, but except from that, just focus on accumulating, and holding Bitcoin. At the end of the day, it's your goals, strategies, and risk management that matters. Maybe add the skills as well.

As for me, I focus more on accumulating Bitcoin rather than trading because I don't know how to trade, and I've lost significant amount of money in trading already that I'm thinking of not doing it anymore.

If you can hold it upto a long time then you should have a hold on it and continue to be aware of of all the market conditions. Just go for all the asset's you can Invest in it so that when it pumps you can have a good amount of profit.

Be aware of the market conditions so that whenever there should be crisis you can have a resale if you're investing something you can't afford to lose otherwise just put the money in there and forget.

I have tried both, and judging from experience I have a peace of mind holding Bitcoin more than trading, if you must long or short the market, make sure you do it once in a while and with money that you are willing to lose, because in the case of trading you are simply gambling.

In the past, I always believe that trading is something you can do every day to get daily income but sometimes the market just behaved unexpectedly, and resulted in losses, you will be safer if you have a source of income and just focus on accumulating Bitcoin.

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The most successful traders don't trade everyday, they do it based on what the chart is gearing up to do and thats why they use stop loss too, obviously, it shows that there is no way you won't lose money as a trader, so be prepared before even starting to trade.

If you think about it very well, the holders have always been the most successful.