  The paper introduces a simple way of recording and manipulating general
stochastic processes without explicit reference to a probability measure. In
the new calculus, operations traditionally presented in a measure-specific way
are instead captured by tracing the behaviour of jumps (also when no jumps are
physically present). The calculus is fail-safe in that, under minimal
assumptions, all informal calculations yield mathematically well-defined
stochastic processes. The calculus is also intuitive as it allows the user to
pretend all jumps are of compound Poisson type. The new calculus is very
effective when it comes to computing drifts and expected values that possibly
involve a change of measure. Such drift calculations yield, for example,
partial integro-differential equations, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations,
Feynman-Kac formulae, or exponential moments needed in numerous applications.
We provide several illustrations of the new technique, among them a novel
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