Does binary options count as trading?

I know that most people believe Binary Options isn't real trading for the simple fact that you aren't actually buying and holding anything. There are no contracts, nothing registered. However, all of the analysis you'd do in forex is still valid. Everything you learn to trade the real markets are valid and you can trade binary options on the open markets that are the exact same graphs as presented on trading view. So in this sense it is very legit and not casino, the broker won't trick you out of a trade that wasn't gonna happen anyway in the open markets. I personally am seeing it with different eyes especially in the past 8 months. I spent 4 years treating it as betting, losing money, not studying properly. Yet, just in the past 8 months alone have made just over 300k which pays me back everything I've lost and profits. It is completely possible to make money through it and receive these payments just like in a normal broker and actually get good at the analysis. I even taught a handful of people that also make money through it now. It's definitely not all that bad like people who don't know how to trade it tend to think.