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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 MDYV — SPDR S&P 400 Mid Cap Value ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs MDYVAssetsWash-sale read
SLYV State Street SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Value ETF0.943—same$4.8Bdifferent indexCompare
SPSM State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF0.940—-12bp$16Bdifferent indexCompare
VIOO Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 ETF0.938—-5bp$2.9Bdifferent indexCompare
IJR iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF0.938—-9bp$104.3Bdifferent indexCompare
IVOG Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth Index Fund0.82424%same$1.1Bdifferent indexCompare
VLU State Street SPDR S&P 1500 Value Tilt ETF0.9001%-3bp$761Mdifferent 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

Cached coverage for 2,091 funds. Latest price/flow record dates: 2024-08-23 to 2026-10-06 (1,063 funds with dated records). Fund details retrieved: 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-08. Data dates vary by fund; these are not live quotes. Flow totals include available records only; missing coverage is not evidence of zero flow.

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