The advantage of trading over investing are
1. low risk of getting scammed by new token
2. easy assess to your coin and the worth
3. It prevent loss of asset due to swapping
4. It allow you to learn more about various tokens (It is just like sport gamblers
they know a lot of countries)
Disadvantages
1. Trading involve technical knowledge of trading tools, trading terms, graph and data analysis
2. It is time consuming
3. Risk of loss in case of exchange hacks (Cryptopia is still fresh in my memory lost a few coin)