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Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes by corry on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:24PM (#26267015)
Love this idea. For the folks in the comments so far who are uncomfortable with the combination of "index" and "picking stocks", I think that's unfair. This is obviously a service for relatively sophisticated folks who (1) want ETFs that don't exist, or (2) want to make minor changes to existing ETFs, or (3) don't want to deal with the ETF fees/overheads for whatever reason (although presumably Enombic will have fees too).

Here's an example that came to mind:

If you were convinced psychedelic medicine is going to be huge as a sector, but also feel it's too early to pick winners/losers (and you dislike the expense overhead of PSYK) - great, make your own ETF. You still have sector risk but not 'stock picking risk'.

FYI - this is a great real example, but assumes Enomics can handle the Neo exchange (in Canada, since that's where most of the psych stocks are these days). Like, someone should post this over at /r/shroomstocks for real. :)

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes by gwd on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:33PM (#26269194)
> (2) want to make minor changes to existing ETFs

This is exactly the use case I've wanted for a long time -- I'd much rather just park most of my money in an S&P 500 index fund. But there are some companies there whose business practices I just find scummy; and if I own stocks in that fund, those companies will be doing those scummy things in my name and for my benefit. I realize there are "ethical" index funds, but somehow their senses of ethics and mine don't match 100%. I'd very much like to be able to say, "The S&P 500, but not X Y or Z."

I'll definitely be looking into this.

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes by wheybags on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:03PM (#26269480)
1000% agree. "Ethical" is not restricted to "no guns, alcohol or cigarettes".
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes by xiphias2 on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:51AM (#26272316)
fast food and coke (Warren Buffet stocks) kill much more people than all of those combined.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes by _eb13 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:16PM (#26267682)
Thanks!

You nailed it. We are building for "prosumer" retail investors who have baseline proficiency around these ideas. Over time we'd want to make sure our platform is more generally accessible, wherein we would build out more in-app education.

Indeed, higher-risk sector-based indexing is a use case we're seeing a lot on the app (e.g. https://enombic.com/jake/crypto). Then, we're seeing folks couple decorrelated sector-based indexes into aggregate indexes (e.g. https://enombic.com/chris/main, this one is actually 50% Vanguard ETFs).

No Neo exchange yet, sorry. Do you know if it's possible to get exposure to psychedelic medicine in the US?