### Comment:
And then you buy it all back a week early so it doesn’t get exercised?

### REPLY:
If you are writing a covered call and it gets excercised you are making a profit.   
  
 You collect a premium from selling the call, and hopefully you wrote the call for a strike that you would be comfortable selling the stock at.   
  
 So you are paid both for writing the option and the sale of the stock should your contract be exercised.

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