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
| Substitute | Correlation | Book overlap | Fee vs FQAL | Assets | Wash-sale read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUAL iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF | 0.950 | — | same | $48B | different index | Compare |
| AOR iShares Core Growth Allocation ETF | 0.906 | — | same | $2.1B | different index | Compare |
| IUSG iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF | 0.888 | — | -11bp | $34.3B | different index | Compare |
| GARP ISHARES FACTORS US GROWTH STYLE ETF | 0.867 | — | -15bp | $3.3B | different index | Compare |
| VLU State Street SPDR S&P 1500 Value Tilt ETF | 0.858 | — | -3bp | $753M | different index | Compare |
| VOT Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund | 0.849 | — | -8bp | $13.8B | different index | Compare |
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 2,133 funds. Latest price/flow record dates: 2024-08-23 to 2026-09-30 (1,104 funds with dated records). Fund details retrieved: 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-02. Data dates vary by fund; these are not live quotes. Flow totals include available records only; missing coverage is not evidence of zero flow.