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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 FNK — FIRST TRUST MID CAP VALUE ALPHADEX FUND
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs FNKAssetsWash-sale read
VBR Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Fund0.910—+7bp$30.1Bdifferent indexCompare
SPSM State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF0.815—+3bp$16Bdifferent indexCompare
VOE Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund0.875—+7bp$17.5Bdifferent indexCompare
SPYV State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF0.803—+4bp$36Bdifferent indexCompare
IJR iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF0.821—+6bp$104.3Bdifferent indexCompare
VFVA Vanguard U.S. Value Factor ETF0.921—+13bp$764Mdifferent 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 2,093 funds. Latest price/flow record dates: 2024-08-23 to 2026-10-26 (1,065 funds with dated records). Fund details retrieved: 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-28. 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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