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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 SPMD — SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs SPMDAssetsWash-sale read
FNX First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund0.965—-3bp$1.2Bdifferent indexCompare
VBK Vanguard Small Cap Growth Index Fund0.90738%+4bp$17.7Bdifferent indexCompare
SCHM Schwab U.S. Mid Cap ETF0.956—+1bp$11.5Bdifferent indexCompare
IMCB iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF0.9351%+1bp$1.7Bdifferent indexCompare
ISCV iShares Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF0.89023%+3bp$661Mdifferent indexCompare
SCHA Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF0.923—+1bp$17.9Bdifferent 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

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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