The market’s in the toilet, but the bowl is half-full!
If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to harvest your tax losses (only do this in your taxable accounts, not your 401ks or IRAs).
When I wrote about it in August here, here and here, I had no idea what a tremendous opportunity we would have to actually put it to work.
If you’re a client of The Financial Zen Group, then we’ve already done this for you.
If you’re not (and why on earth wouldn’t you be?) then you need to do it yourself.
Sell your losses to realize the loss and immediately buy something similar (i.e. sell your Vanguard S&P 500 fund and immediately buy the iShares S&P 500 fund).
For every dollar of tax losses you realize, you will save at least 15 cents in taxes (and possibly up to 50 cents).
Just don’t forget to buy back something similar, otherwise you’ll miss out on all the fun when the market takes off again.
