In continuation, I have not seen this type of gambling online before that does not have a closing time. The last time I saw it was when I was in school, students and some other people that like crazy things like that. The gambling OP is referring to gambling on online sites and the ones on the gambling board on this forum which I have stated already. But using timing to compare between gambling and forex is not totally correct, not totally correct means not that it is wrong, but not entirely true.
Nobody spoke about gambling not having closing time, I said trading doesn't excluding weekends and that's because the discussion here is Forex trading and not cryptocurency trading. Like I also said just because I didn't specify the type of gambling I meant which is (sport betting) doesn't make me wrong because we all have been generalizing here by just saying Gambling. The OP is talking about forex so crypto trading explanation has no merit here, crypto trading and forex are different.
You're not a gambler so you don't know, gambling goes beyond what's happening on casino and sportsbooks. Haven't you heard about gambling tournament held online, even the ones gamers gamble by betting on who wins the games and those prizes, the house has no say sometimes they take commission and other times the players get everything without involving the house and all this are done online not manual.
We said gambling which should cover everything gambling and not just casino games or sport betting. We have decentralized games were users bet P2P, it isn't very popular among the forum users but it's happening and just because you don't know about them doesn't mean it isn't happening. I could name sites but I don't what to promote any site that'll make people lose money and if you browse online (which everybody can do), you'll see platforms offerings such services. Here's an article posted on August 2023 which will let you know P2P betting are gaining momentum;
Peer-to-peer sports betting is crypto’s next killer app Decentralized sports betting enables gamblers to not only beat the house but also own it
• Users can offer and accept bets as they compete against each other through peer-to-peer betting instead of endlessly challenging The House
Web3 betting is taking betting from the house having the edge to the players to own it. Timing also has an impact in sport betting which is also gambling but mightn't have in casino games but they're all gambling.