Value of call options -- please explain

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for reasonably liquid options its always possible to sell them post-expiration when they are in the money rather than exercise them right?

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No, post-expiration a long call [put] either expires worthless or is exercised and you have to pay for [deliver] the underlying instrument, except those which simply settle to cash. There's no trade in an option once it expires.