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outrun
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### Re: to Black Scholes pricing

In the binomial model you don't care about mu: if the stock goes up or down ..your P&L of the hedged call is in both cases zero.

This means that the probability of going up -and hence the value of mu- does not matter if you hedge!

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### Re: to Black Scholes pricing

outrun wrote:
In the binomial model you don't care about mu: if the stock goes up or down ..your P&L of the hedged call is in both cases zero.

This means that the probability of going up -and hence the value of mu- does not matter if you hedge!

outrun, You right. In BS scheme distributions S up-down are given with the help of explicit parameters (mu, sigma). In binomial scheme distributions up-down are  given directly and all constructions are given with the help of $S_{down} ,p_{down} ; S_{up} , p_{up}$ . Though I think one can try to present value mu and express hedging ration in terms of mu. Though no one need that.