Taxes

Tax-Loss Harvesting

Tax-loss harvesting involves selling losing investments to realize losses and offset gains. You can then buy a similar (not substantially identical) investment to stay invested. Avoids the wash sale rule.

Example

Sell VOO at a loss, buy IVV to stay in large-cap stocks.

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