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Not to nit pick the great write up and well detailed points but there are plenty of reasons to recommend a call option over the stock. Investment needed is much less and risk is limited to the relatively smaller invested capital. If it's a short term momentum/speculative trade. Buying calls hedges a short position on actual stock (not the case here though). Call spreads are especially used opportunistically to take advantage of earnings announcement. Simply choosing a call option over the actual stock is not unethical/immoral.

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I just think it's hard to justify recommending a call option over a stock in most instances especially when the target audience is the general public. Point taken though, thanks!

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