### Comment:
You’re looking at it the wrong way. Options can give you 100 shares worth of exposure to the underlying, for 10% or less of the cost. This limits your potential loss, but gives you the same upside as if you owned that number of shares.

### REPLY:
So this is a form of leveraging? 
  
 &amp;#x200B; 
  
 I take it the catch is that you're in a zero sum game with another trader. Apologies if I'm still missing the point or if I'm confusing options with futures, I'm still new to this.

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