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Presuming you are saving for later. Besides a margin call, you might want to exit for, buying a house, going into retirement, covering a period between jobs, or
by rocqua 7y ago
Presuming you are saving for later. Besides a margin call, you might want to exit for, buying a house, going into retirement, covering a period between jobs, or to deal with a medical emergency.
Doing that during a crisis hurts. This risk diminishes the value of investments as a safety cushion.
- human20190310 7y agoIndex funds aren’t a safety cushion. Vanguard rates it’s own S&P 500 index fund as a 4 out of 5 for risk. [0] [0] https://advisors.vanguard.com/iippdf/pdfs/FS540.pdf https://advisors.vanguard.com/iippdf/pdfs/FS540.pdf
- throw0101a 7y ago> Besides a margin call, you might want to exit for, buying a house, going into retirement, covering a period between jobs, or to deal with a medical emergency. In all of those scenarios you should not be in stocks/equities in the first place. If there is a possibility of needing cash with-in the next 5 years, that money should be in either bonds or term deposits. One's downpayment, first/next few retirement years' income, and emergency fund(s) should not be in equities.