Is It Safer to Pull Your Money Out of the Stock Market Now?

With the market dancing around correction territory, many investors have shifted their perspective from "how high can the market go?" to "how far can it fall?" The fear is palpable, and the volatility index that measures such things is certainly projecting that fear will continue.  

The market's drop and spiking volatility raises a very important question: Is it safer to pull your money out of the stock market now? That question is an easy one to ask, but its answer depends a lot more on your overall financial condition than on what the market may do in the near future.

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