### Comment:
Depends on the expiry date? 
  
 If you're buying a month out at least, I've noticed that If you go for enough ITM to get a delta of close to 1 as possible, it ends up being about as expensive if you had just bought 100 shares...maybe a tiny bit cheaper, but not enough to offset the risk involved with just not owning the shares if you were going to spend that much anyway.

### REPLY:
For ITM calls, you always pay [current stock price - strike] + IV premium + theta premium 
  
 If the IV and theta are high..ya you could pay more for options than stock

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