Automatic Investments?

What are some automatic investment programs that allow you to invest in a mutual fund or index fund by contributing each month? I am interested in an account that is outside a Roth IRA or retirement account and have low required minimum contributions. Also, which program has the best mix of mutual funds and index funds.

I have Fidelity, but I don't think they allow automatic investments outside of a Roth IRA account.

an automatic investment plan is basically where your broker company(in this case Fidelity) takes money from your bank account monthly, or weakly, depending how you set it uopn, and autoomaticaly invest it in the stocks/mutual funds/options that you tell it too. All this information, when to buy, what to buy, is set by you in the begining of our automatic investment plan activation. This is only allowed to be used in cases where only buys willl occur, for example you cannot set it to sell for you.

i use troweprice, i have money taken out monthly for my taxable mutual fund, my roth ira, and my traditional ira

i can change the amount whenever i want, or i can add extra money by going on the website and just adding it in

if you want it simple, just have one fund, the target date retirement fund, mine is 2045, they do all the allocation for me in that fund and i just add money each month

i just said troweprice because thats who i use, im sure most others do it as well, my wife uses vanguards target retirement fund, though it just started last week,so i cant comment on it really

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