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Tax-Loss Harvest Finder

Sell the loss, keep the exposure. For any fund, ranked stand-ins that track the same market — scored on a year of price correlation, holdings overlap, and fee — with a flag when two funds follow the same index and a swap could look substantially identical.

Correlation computed on ~250 shared sessions per pair · not tax advice — the flag is a heuristic, your compliance desk has the final word

Fund to harvestTry:IVVQQQAGG
Stand-ins for IETCiShares Evolved U.S. Technology ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs IETCAssetsWash-sale read
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund0.93260%-9bp$124.1Bdifferent indexCompare
IVW iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF0.91050%same$77.4Bdifferent indexCompare
QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust0.90854%+2bp$498.5Bdifferent indexCompare
MGC Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund0.86440%-11bp$6Bdifferent indexCompare
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust0.84140%-9bp$818.3Bdifferent indexCompare
VOO Vanguard 500 Index Fund0.84338%-15bp$500.4Bdifferent indexCompare

RANKED BY CORRELATION, FEE, AND OVERLAP · “SAME INDEX” PAIRS ARE FLAGGED BECAUSE THE IRS HAS NEVER DEFINED “SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL” — MOST DESKS TREAT SAME-INDEX SWAPS AS OFF-LIMITS AND DIFFERENT-INDEX SWAPS AS DEFENSIBLE

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