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That's not the point I am making. People who can afford to keep $50K under the mattress are thinking at a much more sophisticated risk mitigation level, and probably have investments at couple of orders of magnitude higher than the average. I described 2 scenarios. You've addressed only one of...

It's for SANF. Imagine the broker closed up shop one night - happened recently to a couple. Imagine you go on holiday for a week, another twin towers type event happens, market tanks 30% in that week - margin calls happens. In both scenarios the whole portfolio disappears. With $50K in...