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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 SUSAiShares MSCI USA ESG Select ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs SUSAAssetsWash-sale read
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust0.97556%-16bp$818.3Bdifferent indexCompare
VTI Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund0.98051%-22bp$428.1Bdifferent indexCompare
MGC Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund0.96055%-18bp$6Bdifferent indexCompare
VOO Vanguard 500 Index Fund0.97650%-22bp$500.4Bdifferent indexCompare
QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust0.90446%-5bp$498.5Bdifferent indexCompare
BUFR FT CBOE VEST FUND OF BUFFER ETFS0.950-25bp$5.1Bdifferent 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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