What mkt price do I get when selling a mutual fund?

An average day trading price, a certain time of the day price or else?

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Oldman answered a question in ETFs and Funds.
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Oldman answered 10 months ago …

Most of the Mutual Fund companies (Fidelity, Janus, Am. Century, ING, Franklin-Templeton, with whom I've dealt) have a 2:30 PM cut-off time for sell orders for a sale to be executed that day at that day's closing NAV (4:00 PM for the normal closing time of the stock market, in the Eastern time zone of the U.S.) Some will process the sale at a few minutes before 4:00, but each company's site and prospectus describes this very clearly by SEC rules for the past 30+ yrs. The price you get is the calculated NAV at close, usually available at the company's site or by 'phone after 8 or 9 PM that evening. Mutual funds are NOT valued intraday.

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alanj answered a question in ETFs and Funds.
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alanj answered 10 months ago …

If my memory serves me right, if you put your order in today it will be the next days end of day closing price. Which really sucks. (Excuse the expression.) You might want to consider ETF's. They trade like stocks. And ETF's management fees are about a third the cost of a similar mutual fund.

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alanj answered a question in ETFs and Funds.
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alanj answered 10 months ago …

Oldman's statement reminded me. He's right. Don't pay attention to my first sentence of my earlier statement. I haven't bought any Mutual Funds in quite a while, ETF's are much better.

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