Scenario In quantitative trading and quantitative research, candidates are frequently evaluated on probability modeling, specifically regarding Martingales / Wald Identities.
Your Task
Let be i.i.d. random variables with mean and variance . Let . Let be a stopping time with respect to the filtration generated by such that .
(1) State and prove Wald's First Identity for .
(2) State and prove Wald's Second Identity for when .
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