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Learn what to do when the stock market is volatile. The stock market pulled back 1600 points in one day. A new record. I saw one TV reporter make a big deal of a 500 pt drop because that's what happened in the crash of 1987. Percentage-wise that was a 22% decline vs. a few percent. Yesterday the Dow dropped 567 then gained 567. Don't pay attention to the number of points it moves, pay attention to percentages. Now that the Dow is so much higher at 25,000, it would take a drop of 5,500 points to equal 22% like in 1987. Stock market pull backs, and crashes, are part of investing so you need to have a strategy to handle them. Rather than hoping they won't happen, you have to accept them as part of investing and learn what to do because the stock market drops about 10% every 11 months on average. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 20% 12 times since the end of WWII. That's about every 6 years. You have 3 choices whenever there is volatility: Buy, hold or sell. Since there are bigger corrections every 6