Saul,
I was tempted to write a post similar to yours but then thought better of it. I anticipated that the outcome of such a post would most likely be a friendly argument wherein most folks with an opposing perspective would fail to understand what appears to be a very straight forward clarification.
There is a difference between an at-market trade and a one-on-one bet on a future outcome. Selling carrots for a dollar is inherently different from betting a dollar on the outcome of a coin toss.
I guess I’ll leave it at that.