An emergency fund is crucial to avoid panic selling investments or incurring penalties from early retirement account withdrawals during financial emergencies.
"an emergency fund is so important because it's going to give you a cushion when you have a financial emergency because when something goes wrong if you don't set aside money then what are you going to do you're going to start selling your Investments you're going to start selling your stocks in a panic you're going to be withdrawing money from your retirement accounts early which you're going to be hit with withdrawal penalty"