@vivektrader
All these are fancy nomenclature as
@timepass mentioned. Even with no leverage, short term trading and long term trading are equally risky.
Leverage is a factor/tool that allows you to trade multiple stocks with the same capital at the same time.
When someone is investing, (s)he is also looking at returns in terms of dividends & bonuses. Mostly all the shares a person has would have been taken at a steep discount or for free. It is then, in the true sense, a person need never sell her/his shares for life - and thus remain invested!
Till such time a person is just a trader on a longer timeframe.