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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 PTINPacer Trendpilot International ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs PTINAssetsWash-sale read
VEU Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund0.957+5bp$40.1Bdifferent indexCompare
VT Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund0.909+4bp$39.4Bdifferent indexCompare
VSS Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small Capital Index Fund0.901+4bp$8.8Bdifferent indexCompare
IEMG iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF0.871+6bp$160.6Bdifferent indexCompare
VWO Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund0.843+5bp$79.1Bdifferent indexCompare
VGK Vanguard European Stock Index Fund0.895+8bp$20.6Bdifferent 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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