You are absolutely correct that is the real truth about it, because the difference is quite clear just like as you mentioned that is it. Traders are just gamblers they do monitor the market every often to no whether they can cash out or not since is a short time period. Why investors always have target of long term investment regardless of the market price they would just keep on buying and holding for future purposes.

Day traders if that's all they do may not be investing as it always be converted to cash.

But if the day trader is managing to make his btc stack grow I would say he is investing in BTC

All investors are long term traders. So yes an investor is a trader but with a long term vision

When I think about what an investor is, I picture someone like me buying bitcoin and just sitting on it for years. I'd hold onto it, waiting for that moment way down the road when the price shoots up and then i'd cash out with a big smile. It's all about playing the long game, believing in the future of crypto and not sweating the daily ups and downs. Traders, though? They're a different breed. i see them jumping in and out of the market all the time, buying low and selling high, chasing those quick profits that add up fast if you've got the knack for it.

For me, being an investor feels calmer, like I'm planting a seed and letting it grow over time. Traders, on the other hand, are always on their toes, riding the waves of those wild price swings. I guess in a way, we're both part of the same crypto world, putting our money where our beliefs are. But while I'm dreaming of that big payoff years from now, they're out there making moves every day. Honestly, i admire how they handle the stress, I'd probably lose sleep watching the charts that close! Still, whether you're holding tight like me or flipping coins like them, we're all betting on this crazy market in our own way.

It is actually quite easy to distinguish between investors and traders. Investors target long term profits storing and accumulating assets that are considered promising such as bitcoin for a period of 4/6 years then selling them when the assets provide profits according to plan. Their approach is also quite simple. Those who are called investors do not care too much about market fluctuations because their goals are long term, while traders focus on short-term profits.

Investors are for the long term and they only trade when they are in profit. But those that does scalp and swing trading, they're the real traders in the market. It's up to how you view both of them, they can both classified as traders since the long term investors are going to sell and they are required to trade so, therefore they're also traders. It's not actually a big matter to discuss because as long as you're in profit and if you think yourself as an investor or a trader, you're free to call yourself however you are.

Traders are not supposed to be called as investors. Trader is someone who betting on the risk in short term, and hoping they can get decent return without waiting so long. It's different with investors who are looking for long term value speculation from an asset through holding it.

Traders and investors are different. Although some may be arguing that investors are also doing trading activity to invest, but it's different in term of target, time line, method etc.

Like you called it, Spot trading, meaning they are trading and not investing, reason being that those funds doesn't stay in one asset for long and they might be switching from one asset to the other with respect to the market dynamic. So they are trading.

Spot trading carries minimal risks, since you can only loose the percentage at which the value of the asset traded against gains over your purchase price in which ever direction you anticipated. There is a risk of course to purchase assets that dumps within a short while, then heavy losses are incurred, so this spot trader cannot be called an investor

You are going with the technical meanings and terms used because technically, even an investor trades when they are either buying or selling assets of their choice, but logically, an investor is different than a trader because when we say someone is an investor, we mean they intend to buy and hold an asset as an investment so that they can get capital gains when its price grows over time, whereas a trader is someone who frequently buys and sells assets to get profits on a short-term basis.

You can even think of it from other businesses' perspectives. Imagine, if we are talking about a company of watches. Someone who buys and sells watches every day or week and is always in the process of doing that is called a trader. However, if someone buys specific watches, and keeps them with himself so that he can sell them when their price goes up, he is investing in watches and isn't trading them in the logical sense.

It is something you simply put your money and expect returns and the returns are just something that you expect you can not get what you always want and this is why the interest you come with matters a lot and this is what will show your progress because you have to be prepared before you can be an investor.

And those that hold Bitcoin are even does that I even feel are the actual investors to because they are taking there time to actually wait for everything to actually yield because it is just as if you are planting and you are waiting for the crop to actually produce but this one takes longer.

This is more reasons why I prefer older than traders because trading comes with a lot of risk that people will not see able to control starting from there emotions. But are investing since you will get something in return. So they are all investment. It just depends if you are getting something in return or not.