What ETF have the lowest total cost?

is there a quick way to find out what fund have the lowest total cost, including management fees, 12b-1 and operational cost. I still dont know what index i want to get into.

Virtually all ETFs have low expenses because there is no real "management" other than keeping the holdings in line with the index they track. But you can go to Morningstar.com (and many other sites) to see what the expense ratios are for various ETFs. 12b-1 fees are included in the expense ratios, so expense ratio pretty much tells you what the total cost is (other than the broker commission to buy the ETF).

To Random Market: Some of the new ETFs are planning to include 12b-1 fees, and may already have done so.

ETFs are designed to have a low overall total cost. You should check out iShares. http://www.ishares.com They have a wide range of ETFs with very low internal expenses.

Look at this link:

http://finance.yahoo.com/etf/browser/op?...

Look for the lowest "Expense ratio". ETFs do not carry 12b-1 fees (some mutual funds do). For ETFs your costs are the expense ratio and your trading fees (broker commisions on the trades).

Vanguard has the lowest cost ETF's.