Selling Calls: Volume?

[Pavel Svinchnik]

I've bought some calls in the past but never sold any. I was looking into selling calls but it seems that the per-share premium is so small that you'd have to sell options on thousands of shares to make it worth the effort. For those of you who sell options, what is the usual volume of shares in an offering?

 

[william the wie]

75% of calls and 80% of puts expire worthless. write calls on issues you wouldn't mind selling at the strike price and write puts on issue wouldn't mind buying at the strike price. if those conditions are not met don't write an option. The buyer of an option thinks they know more than everyone else in the world about what the price of the underlying should be

 

[Cellblock2429]

I've bought some calls in the past but never sold any. I was looking into selling calls but it seems that the per-share premium is so small that you'd have to sell options on thousands of shares to make it worth the effort. For those of you who sell options, what is the usual volume of shares in an offering?

/——/ I normally trade 10 contracts (1000 share) I’ve done well with TNA.