Folks, investing newbie here. Planning on using the Bogleheads recommended 3 fund portfolio. Opened a tIRA with Fidelity and have been reading about their 4 fund portfolio which is in line with Bogleheads.
Question: I'm looking for a step by step video on how to go about selecting investment options. As a newbie, I know what I want to invest in, but I'm not sure how to do it. Any tutorial videos that walk you through the process? E.g.- click here to select, click there to confirm.

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I used to have Fidelity and Etrade and I know what you mean where you’re just trying to figure out how to navigate the darn website.
Step 1: Navigate to the the Trading section. There should be a tab at the top. Alternatively, I found buying/selling much easier to navigate on the Fidelity mobile app. There’s button on the bottom for Trade, then an easy form to fill out. But eventually you’ll want to learn to navigate the website for more monitoring options and stock research.
Step 2: You’ll want to figure out how many shares you want of a fund or stock. For e.g. if you want to invest $5000 from your Traditional IRA in index fund X, that costs $100 per share, you’ll enter: Account=Traditional IRA, BUY 50 shares of X index fund (use ticker symbol).
Boom, then the trade will go either immediately or the next day, depending on whether it’s stock or fund (funds only trade end of day), and stock timeline will depend on whether it’s during trading hours or after hours.
Calling Fidelity can be helpful but lately I find there’s a long wait time. Sometimes the online chat can be more helpful. I actually got a lot done one time while in France using the online chat system and talking with someone in Denver. There probably weren’t many other customers at that time. 🤷‍♀️
Source: former teacher and Fidelity user

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Using the Fidelity app you can now do fractional trades by dollar amount. So like a mutual fund, you can skip the math and just put a buy or sell for a dollar amount. They rolled it out only to the app and not the website at first,not sure if this is still the case. The trade screen has option to pick shares or dollars.

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On Bogleheads, they go into detail about all this...

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88005

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Our rich journey YouTube videos. This couple did FIRE and has lots of videos on picking stocks and MFs.

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If you already know what to do, but not how, call up Fidelity and ask them to walk you through it.

Do they charge for that?

If you're just asking how to use their website to do x,y,z no charge. They probably can't tell you to enter information for a specific stock as that would be considered them advising you. But if you just need to know what to click on to get to the right sections of the website and make sure a transaction goes through, etc, yes they can to do that for free.

Read the boggleheads wiki. The Wiki has really everything you need from getting started, through taxes and retirement withdrawal advice. Really a great resource. There are typically Fidelity equivalents identified in the Wiki’s that suggest funds (e.g., the three fund Wiki). If there isn’t, ask a question and you’ll get great advice.

I understand you have seemed to settle on Fidelity, but have you considered other options? I don’t want to throw a wrench in the mix but I know there there are better rated more secure and reliable options out there. Just a thought. If you would like to chat let me know

Well I don’t advise on brokerage services or securities so Its not a sales pitch. As you said the financial strength rating is relevant, so really I’m just stating facts and providing helpful information for someone making an important decision. This way author EY can have all of the right knowledge to make an informed decision.

I think it’s good to diversify your experience and investments. There’s no reason why you have to go to the same place for everything, but when you look at the numbers and historical track record with NM it speaks for itself.

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