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Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin
If you can make 25% on your stocks and not need the money for 2 years you can take a 50% market crash and still be even. People hold these emergency funds for years and it's a waste. There's basically no emergency you can't use a credit card for to buy time until you liquidate an investment.
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That's a pretty good point.
Of course, if there's a crash it's not going to be a good thing. But I'm one of those people who gets antsy just watching money sit around. I had a dedicated emergency fund, and then after a few months I put it into some ultraconservative defensive fund, and then after a few more months I bought a little bit of stock with it, and now it's just another stock account for me.
However, I keep a decent amount of cash in my checking account just because I don't like juggling money between accounts, and I have a rule to keep at least five percent cash in my stock trading account, so all in all I do have an emergency fund. It's just not a dedicated account.