Is Deep Hedging Reinforcement Learning? A Response to the View that Monte Carlo-Based Policy Gradient Methods Fall Outside the Reinforcement Learning Framework

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The paper is relevant to quantitative trading insofar as it clarifies the classification of deep hedging methods used in option hedging and risk management. It does not propose new trading strategies or algorithms but addresses a terminological/taxonomic debate that affects how practitioners and researchers categorize and build upon deep hedging work. Moderate relevance as it pertains to the conceptual framework rather than direct trading applications.

This is a purely theoretical/conceptual position paper with no implementation, code, or algorithmic contribution. There is nothing to implement.

This is a position/response note with no experiments, code, or empirical results. It is a theoretical taxonomy argument. Reproducibility in the traditional sense does not apply.