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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 IWPiShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs IWPAssetsWash-sale read
VOT Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund0.95536%-16bp$13.8Bdifferent indexCompare
VBK Vanguard Small Cap Growth Index Fund0.93430%-16bp$17.7Bdifferent indexCompare
ISCG iShares Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF0.91315%-17bp$1Bdifferent indexCompare
IWR iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF0.87525%-4bp$58.4Bdifferent indexCompare
IJK iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF0.89518%-6bp$11.3Bdifferent indexCompare
VB Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund0.88815%-18bp$58.9Bdifferent 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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