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You delta-hedge a long option times over its life instead of continuously. What happens to the hedging error?
- AIts standard deviation falls as , and it has mean zero
- BIt falls as
- CIt is biased against you, so hedging more often has a positive expected cost
- DIt disappears entirely once exceeds the number of trading days
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