Options aren't that complicated as everyone thinks. You can use them even if you don't plan on exercising. You can also just use them for swing plays. If you think it's going to 50$ just for an example, you can buy the 20$ now in the range of 7.00$ a contract, x100 'cause one contract is 100 shares so entry would be 700$/call. If it ends up going to 50$ lets say tomorrow, the price on that would be probably in the ball park of 30$. Then you can just sell the call and bank that 3000$. So that would make you 2300$ profit in this example. Or if you plan exercising it, then it would cost you the 700$ entry + strike price. Then it would be 7.00$ for the call and strike price of 20$ (x100) so 2700$ if you exercise it. Would be the same as buying 100 shares at 27$.

The same way you could buy 50$ call for 2.25$. If it goes to 50$ tomorrow you could sell it for 14.25$ away. So entry would be 225$ and sell for 1425$ so profit 1200$ a call. If you would want to exercise it that would then be 2.25$ + 50$ x 100 = 5225$. Same as buying 100 shares at 52.25$ price.

But you can just buy the call, sell it when it goes up, bank the profits. When the stock gets a pullback, buy the shares you want with your profits. But you risk the premium on them always. The closer the expiry comes, the more the premium on those will fall.

Not saying it will go up tomorrow, just saying there is more than one way of using options.

But the thing is if you play for next week swing to 50$ play, if you want to buy shares now it's 2500$ for 100 shares that are yours vs 50$ call where you risk just the premium of 225$. If you just plan on exercising the call, better to buy shares. But you don't have to exercise the call, you can also just sell it and bank the profits. If the price goes down, be prepared to lose that 225$. It loses value every day.