your $140 wont buy you 10 call options at $14, you might not be able to enter the market at all Option prices have to be multiplied by the quantity of their un

your $140 wont buy you 10 call options at $14, you might not be able to enter the market at all Option prices have to be multiplied by the quantity of their underlying asset, so 100 is standard in the equities space. $14 x 100 = $1,400 $1,400 is the amount you have to put down. so there is still amplified return possibilities but you were probably overestimating by an order of magnitude