Could index ETFs have any special problems in a market crash?

Question

Besides those shared by the rest of the market and the modeled index. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

ETFs may be more volatile than traditional mutual funds because they are exchange-traded like stocks, and thus more prone to panic selling.

Answer 2

Low volume ETFs can move quickly in any panic selling (or buying).

The market is not likely to crash. We have been in a Bear Market which is a long prolonged decline just like we had the last one in 200-2002. This one is worse because it is effecting (1)  the base wealth of Americans (real estate) and a global commodity (oil).

Answer 3

Not really, they simply reperesent the market and therefore should pretty much correlate with it exactly on time scales of more than one day for even the most illiquid etfs.