Hi, I am the developer of the etfcetra app. A little backstory: I do investment in index funds and had initially developed this app as a simple reminder app for periodically investing in ETFs. I slowly built other features like exploring ETFs, investing in the basket of ETF stocks, integration with Zerodha etc.
etfcetra is very small (~3MB) app and you don't need to create an account to use it, so please try it out if you are into passive investment/index fund investment/ETF.
Currently, you can do the following:
1. Explore various equity, debt, gold and international ETFs that you can invest in the Indian market.
2. Create SIP-like investment plan for buying either individual or basket of ETF stocks.
3. Like SIP, you can decide how much you want to invest periodically and this app will remind you how much stocks you can buy considering the current price of the ETFs.
4. When the installment amount is not multiple of ETF stock price you cannot invest your entire installment amount (because unlike mutual fund units, you cannot buy fractional stocks). In that case, you can either decide to always invest little more than your installment amount. Or you can decide to invest less than installment amount and then carry forward remaining amount to next installment.
5. Buy all the stocks in your basket straight from the etfcetra app with Zerodha integration.
Currently, this is only an Android-only app, but I will be happy to hear if someone interested in either web app or iOS app. Let me know at swapnil@etfcetra.com.
Overall, I think the views presented in the book are superficial and do not give significant insight into power relations underlying the decision making. The wider context is often ignored. A lot of bold, unjustified statements that sound like a piece of propaganda. I just opened the book at a random page and found this: There are lots of planned economies-the United States is a planned economy, for example. I mean, we talk about ourselves as a "free market," but that's baloney. The only parts of the U.S. economy that are internationally competitive are the planned parts.
For example, his treatment of the Cold War. Like many people whose countries fell on the dark side of the Iron Curtain, I am grateful for all that the US did to contain and defeat the Soviet Union. When countries like Poland were oppressed under the communist rule which was in some ways more destructive than the second world war, Chomsky would have liked to let a large chunk of the third world fall under the same yoke just to avoid confrontation and casualties. This is a view that I find dangerous, ignorant and BS.
One could get a much more objective, fuller and clearer picture of things as well as appreciation of the complexities involved by getting an international relations textbook such as International Relations Since 1945 by Kent or a lighter read, The Global Cold War by Westad.
A year (or two) ago, I wrote a simple virtual machine [1] of my own. Fun time. Interesting exercise. Wish I had courage to post it here and get feedback from the HN. Anyways, yours is much cleaner and concise code. Kudos.
Posted my reply on wrong comment (Got confused between akkartik and tekknolagi) :). Anyways, thanks for sharing.
Are you planning to add memory management opcodes (Allocate memory, free memory)? I see DBS, DBG instruction, but it is like key-value store (since it uses carp_ht internally).
