Back to a prior save. Next time you want to do somethings as dangerous, be sure to alternate with the Heal Other (or similar) spell. Also, it is Riverwood not Redwood.
If you restart from that earlier save, Use Bandits as your practice target. There is a Mine to the north just off the road to Helgen. The Dragons will do for Alvor soon enough.
And you lose (as you may have noticed) him as the Merchant, and the Iron/Steel Ingots under his bench.
As someone who has sold a lot of puts and bought relatively few calls, I can say there are a lot of reasons. Spin gave you one good example. You can sell a put to buy a stock at a discount or, if the stock ends up over the strike price, make a profit without ever buying the stock.
Another thing to remember is that options are wasting assets. Unless there is a significant change in the price of the underlying security, option prices on the security go down as time passes. Option buyers tend to have a lot of small losses and a few big gains.
Option sellers tend to have a lot of small gains and a few large losses. A lot of option traders use spreads to limit potential losses, and may adjust those spreads prior to expiration. When an option is sold as part of a spread potential losses and potential gains are both limited.
Most option traders want to buy options when they think implied volatility is too low, but would prefer to sell options when they think implied volatility is too high. Also remember that if you buy an option and it expires worthless, you have lost 100% of your investment. Game over.
If you sell a put and are assigned you end up owning the underlying security, which may (or may not) go up in the future. It is true that the put seller can easily have a much larger unrealized loss, but probably much less than 100% of his total investment (including the cost of buying the stock). To give you one example, I sold some puts on a stock and was assigned, sold more puts on the stock at a lower strike price and was assigned again, but my faith in the company was rewarded and I ended up selling the stock at three to four times what I paid for it.
I am not advocating selling puts to anyone else. I am just saying that it worked well for me.
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