### Comment:
What if you're trying to get your cost basis on a stock you wouldn't mind owning long (msft very clearly in this trade) to as low as possible?

### REPLY:
This would be ideal - to date I have not found a reason to buy stock outright vs sell puts IF you want to own the shares.  
  
 OP has the cash to cover so he's not doing anything crazy as you'll see in the conversation below.

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