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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 FXL — FIRST TRUST TECHNOLOGY ALPHADEX FUND
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs FXLAssetsWash-sale read
TECL Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X ETF0.921—same$7.1Bdifferent indexCompare
QGRO American Century U.S. Quality Growth ETF0.875—same$859Mdifferent indexCompare
DYNF BLACKROCK US EQUITY FACTOR ROTATION ETF0.835—same$42.4Bdifferent indexCompare
VTI Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund0.838—+3bp$428.1Bdifferent indexCompare
SPTM State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF0.827—+3bp$14.2Bdifferent indexCompare
VOO Vanguard 500 Index Fund0.824—+3bp$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

Cached coverage for 2,091 funds. Latest price/flow record dates: 2024-08-23 to 2026-10-05 (1,063 funds with dated records). Fund details retrieved: 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07. 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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