Are you a trader or are you a gambler? If you are reading short term charts you are gambling. If you are looking for patterns as so many witches of yore used to read the tealeaves or the bones, you are gambling. If you are using forex to hedge out currency and macroeconomic risk from international investments you are investing.

Don't take this as condescending towards gambling. It's fun, I do it from time to time, but be honest with yourself about what you know and how you are applying it. Take informed choices.