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TL;DR: In this article, the conditional variance of an expectation-decreasing semimartingale with values in the unit interval has been shown to be less than f(2 - f) and this bound is sharp.
Abstract: Let $S_n = f + X_1 + \cdots + X_n$ be an expectation-decreasing semimartingale with values in the unit interval, and let $V_n$ be the conditional variance of $X_n$ given the past. Then $E(\sum V_n)$ is less than $f(2 - f)$, and this bound is sharp. Sharper bounds are available if the process $S_0, S_1, \cdots$ satisfies suitable additional constraints.

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