[2arrs2ells]

Stock (plus a credit card while you wait for settlement) is certainly fine, but be careful...

The times that you are more likely to need liquidity (loss of job, economic crisis) are also the times that the stock market is likely to be incredibly low.

You might end up like many hedge funds who (as a result of some toxic assets) ended up having to sell good assets at firesale prices during the recent recession.

[hugh3]

True, but on the other hand, with US-dollar interest rates being what they are at the moment, the alternative to keeping your money in shares (or a similar volatile liquid investment) is keeping it your savings account at 1% or less. I keep a few grand in cash, but everything else goes in the sharemarket.