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This page illustrates that imperfect hedging induces deviation of the (terminal) value of the hedge portfolio from the option payoff. For hedging in discrete time the hedge minimizing the residual error is different from the delta hedge.
It serves as a companion to Chapter 7 of Mathematical Finance.
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