I think and treat trading as gambling. I earn way more at trading than at any time previously working 7:30 -5:00pm for the boss, something is wrong. What's really wrong is energy goes toward my aspirations, not someone else, that's just plain wrong.
You will have to define gambling. I sounds to me that you know what you are doing. You have figured out an edge and are taking advantage of it. You know going into a trade what the outcome will be. Doesn't sound like much of a gamble to me.
When I'm confident on a positive outcome on a trade, often it becomes a loser. The trades I'm most suspicous of and hesitant about often result in becoming winners.
whenever you have a good hit, take half the profit out your trading account and put it in your living good account. Something that Jesse Livermore said, paraphrased because I don't remember the exact wording.
But are you gambling? Losing is just part of trading. Just because you know you might lose doesn't mean you are gambling. It's part of a winning strategy.
A winning strategy might be now, tomorrow it might be gone. The market controls, we don't control it.
We control when we get in and out of a trade. I don't consider it gambling. If you do then I hope you have good luck.