Solution

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The marked-to-market value of the current holdings is . In a self-financing portfolio, purchases are paid for by sales within the portfolio, so rebalancing itself changes no net wealth. Asset price changes contribute , and nonnegative consumption removes from wealth. Hence
The holdings must be predictable and stochastically integrable. The second identity is the self-financing definition with withdrawals; it is not obtained by incorrectly setting the changes in the holdings themselves to zero.

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