Buy call = Sell put => bullish
Buy put = Sell call => bearish
So which will I pick if I am bullish or bearish?
Personally I like the idea of getting paid a premium while waiting to buy a stock (sell put) or sell a stock (sell call) when assigned, hence the appeal of selling rather than buying options.
Buying a stock via buy call
1. If a stock has risen far too high outside the price I am prepared to pay, I may contemplate doing a leap call with longer date to expiry so as...

Michael Burry trades about a little over $100 Million for his fund, but buys over $1,500,000,000 in put options on the SPY and QQQ?  He smells a sequel coming...Big Short 2 - The Great Stock Market Crash!
Added Puts of $890M of $SPY
Added Puts of $740M of $QQQ

Russia wants "unfriendly countries" to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles. That's a new directive from President Vladimir Putin as he attempts to leverage his country's in-demand resources to counter a barrage of Western sanctions.
"I have decided to implement ... a series of measures to switch payments — we'll start with that — for our natural gas supplies to so-called unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin said in ...