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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
If you are writing a covered call and it gets excercised you are making a profit.   
  
 You collect a premium from selling the call, and hopefully you wrote the call for a strike that you would be comfortable selling the stock at.   
  
 So you are paid both for writing the option and the sale of the stock should your contract be exercised.

gpt
As long as you don't count what you could of sold it at as a loss. I sold some calls for like 5 cents with a $3.50 strike, price of the stock went from like 2.95 to 3.93. so I lost 38 cents a share from what I could have sold them at. But then again I sold calls on those shares like 10 times....