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long call

Buying a ticket that gains if the price goes up. The most you can lose is what you paid for the ticket.

The fuller meaning

Buying a call option. The maximum loss is the premium paid; profit starts above the strike plus the premium at expiry and grows as the underlying rises. It gives similar direction to owning shares with very different downside.

long call.

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