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Resampling returns without destroying their memory

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You want to bootstrap the distribution of a strategy's maximum drawdown from a series of daily returns that exhibit autocorrelation and volatility clustering.

Explain why the ordinary i.i.d. bootstrap is wrong here, how the block bootstrap fixes it, and how to choose the block length.

Your answer

This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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