Terminal nonnegativity criterion for a finite-horizon martingale transform

ID: terminal-nonnegativity-criterion-for-a-finite-horizon-martingale-transform

For and fixed finite deterministic , bounded events in restricting both and show that nonnegativity of forces nonnegativity of . Induction makes the entire stopped process nonnegative. The nonnegative discrete-time local martingale is a martingale criterion then gives . Nonnegative terminal gain is therefore zero almost surely, even without an intermediate wealth bound.

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