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Portfolio X-ray for regular investors

You probably own the same stock five times.

Apple through your brokerage. Apple inside VOO. Apple inside QQQ. Apple inside VUG. Overlap looks through your funds, adds it all up, and tells you what you actually own — in about eight seconds.

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Fig. 1 — Five holdings, one bet
AAPL
20%
NVDA
18%
MSFT
15%
QQQ
25%
XLK
22%
Effective technology exposure 71%
"but it's five different positions!" — everyone
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What it does

Three tools. One uncomfortable truth at a time.


No. 1

The Analyzer

Paste your holdings. Get a look-through sector map, your true single-stock concentration, a fee audit, and a diversification score you can argue about on Reddit.

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No. 2

ETF Compare

VOO or SPY? SCHD or VIG? Any two funds, head to head: holdings overlap, fees over 30 years, and whether owning both accomplishes anything.

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No. 3

Market Pulse

Where retail attention is piling up right now — unusual volume, crowd chatter, and what that concentration means for people who hold the ticker.

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From the case files

Portfolios we've straightened out

Composite cases drawn from patterns we see every week. Details anonymized; dollar figures are fee savings, not market luck.

Case No. 12 · March 2026

The Triple Indexer

Held VOO, SPY, and IVV side by side — three tickers, one index, ~99% identical. Was paying SPY's 0.09% for the privilege. Consolidated the lot into SPLG at 0.02%.

Score38→71
Recovers ~$312/yr in fees on a $450k portfolio — every year, forever.
Case No. 31 · April 2026

All-In on AI (Accidentally)

NVDA at 28%, plus QQQ, SMH, and XLK. Look-through tech exposure: 74%. Felt diversified across "four positions." Trimmed NVDA to 12%, added VXUS and a bond sleeve.

Score24→68
Tech exposure 74% → 38%. Slept through the June chip selloff.
Case No. 55 · June 2026

The Fee Collector

ARKK (0.75%), GLD (0.40%), JEPI (0.35%), IWM (0.19%) — a 0.42% blended fee for what was, underneath, mostly large-cap US exposure. Swapped to cheap twins doing the same jobs.

Score51→79
Blended fee 0.42% → 0.07%. ~$3,500 kept per decade, per $100k.

A note from the desk

I started Overlap after reading my two-hundredth "rate my portfolio" thread where someone holding VOO, SPY, and VTI asked whether they should add IVV. The replies were mockery. What that person needed was a picture.

Overlap is that picture. No account walls, no upsell halfway through your analysis, no pretending a pile of index funds is a strategy. Just the math I wish someone had shown me before I spent years paying 0.75% for a fund that underperformed the index it was quietly hugging.

— Matt, who builds Overlap and reads every email

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Tool No. 1 · The one everything else is built on

The AnalyzerFree · No account

You think you're diversified. Let's check.

Enter tickers and amounts — dollars or percentages, either works. We look inside your ETFs, so 20% VOO counts as 1.2% Apple, 1.3% Microsoft, and so on. Most people find out they own their favorite stock three more times than they thought.

1.Paste your holdings — or load a sample and snoop first.
2.Get the X-ray — score, grade, findings, fees. Eight seconds.
3.Fix it — exact trades, what-ifs, and a shareable report card.

The intake form

Nothing is uploaded or stored — the math runs entirely in your browser. Lie to us and you're only lying to yourself.
Try a sample:
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§1Findings

The things a fee-only advisor would circle in red pen.

§2Largest true positions

Direct shares + slices inside every ETF you hold.

§3Sector exposure

True look-through — including what's inside your funds.

§4Fee audit

Weighted expense ratio
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§5Fund overlap

How much of each pair is literally the same stocks, by weight.

§6The full rebalancing plan Pro — free during the early edition

Quick notes first; the exact trades below.

Risk profile:

§7The what-if machine

Thinking of buying something? See what it does to your score before you spend a dollar.

§8Correlation check

Overlap catches identical holdings. Correlation catches holdings that merely move identically — TSLA and ARKK aren't the same asset, but they have the same bad days. Long-run estimates.
Tool No. 2

Compare ETFs

Two funds enter. One question gets answered: does owning both actually diversify you, or are you paying two fees for one portfolio?

New to this? An ETF (exchange-traded fund) is one ticker that buys you a whole basket of stocks in a single purchase — VOO, for example, is ~500 companies at once. The catch: two ETFs can quietly hold the same stocks, which is what this tool exposes.
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And in this corner
Or jump to a matchup people ask about constantly:
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The tale of the tape · ✓ marks the better number
Fig. A — Shared anatomy
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Fig. B — What fees do to $10,000 over 30 years (7%/yr before fees)

What exactly overlaps

The same stocks, held by both funds — the money you've doubled up on. Based on each fund's top holdings.
Fig. C — Sector tilt, side by side · mirror images = redundant funds

How to de-risk this pair

Specific moves, in order of impact. Educational analytics, not personal advice.
Tool No. 3

Market Pulse

Where retail attention is concentrating this week — unusual trading volume and crowd chatter. Attention is not a buy signal. Usually it's the opposite.

Preview with simulated data. The production version pulls live volume from exchange feeds and mention counts from public forums, refreshed every 15 minutes.
Most crowded this week
PLTR
Chatter 92/100 with 3.1× volume. Retail-heavy names amplify both directions.
Quiet accumulation
OXY
2.3× volume, chatter only 34. Volume without chatter is often the more interesting signal.
Most duplicated holding
NVDA
Appears in VOO, QQQ, XLK, VUG & SMH — the stock people own five times without noticing.

Unusual volume & chatter

Week of June 29, 2026 (sample) · click a column header to sort · click any row for the full stock page · tickers get flagged if your analyzed portfolio holds them
TickerCompany Volume vs 30-day Trend (8 wk) Chatter Worth knowing
Chatter index blends public forum mention velocity with comment sentiment. High chatter + high volume historically precedes elevated volatility, not returns.

What this page is for

If a ticker on this list is also one of your top holdings, your portfolio is riding a crowded trade. That can work — until everyone heads for the same exit. Cross-reference with the Analyzer to see how exposed you are. Pro subscribers get alerts when their holdings show up here, plus insider-transaction flags.

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The crowd read

Volume, chatter, and what the combination usually means.

Your exposure

Direct shares plus what's hiding inside your funds.

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The Standings

Leaderboards

Anonymized portfolios from the community, ranked. Vote for the ones that deserve the spotlight — and learn from the ones that deserve the Hall of Shame.

Simulated preview. In production, rankings rebuild nightly from opted-in community portfolios, and long-haul returns are verified through broker sync — no screenshots, no lying.
Parlor game

Guess the Score

A real portfolio shape from our case files. How diversified do you think it is?

Your guess: 50

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My Desk

Where Pro subscribers keep an eye on a saved portfolio without staring at it. Below is a live-looking preview using a sample portfolio (the "Reddit special," post-rebalance).

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This desk works for Pro subscribers.

Saved portfolios watched daily. Drift & crowding alerts. Insider flags on your holdings. Stress tests, tax-loss scans, a new-money allocator, and an advisor lie-detector. $8/month or $72/year — about what one expense-ratio mistake costs you anyway.

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During the early edition, the full preview is free while payments get wired up. Kick every tire.

Simulated preview. In production this page tracks your saved portfolio: alerts fire when drift, crowding, or insider activity touches something you own.

Score history Pro

Diversification score since starting rebalancing in January.
41 → 68 in six months. Most of the jump: consolidating three S&P funds and adding VXUS.

Drift & crowding alerts Pro

We watch so you don't have to. Delivered by email, at most one per day.
Jun 28DriftNVDA +9% this week — your effective tech exposure crossed 45% (your target band tops out at 38%).
Jun 21CrowdingSMCI entered Market Pulse's top three while sitting at 6% of your portfolio. Crowded trades cut both ways.
Jun 14FeesYour weighted expense ratio rose to 0.14% after the QQQ buy. QQQM does the identical job for 0.15% vs 0.18%.
Jun 02RebalanceQuarterly check: trim 4% QQQ, add VXUS, and you're back inside every band.

Insider activity on your holdings Pro

Form 4 filings, filtered to stocks you actually own — with a read on whether it matters.
TickerActivity (30d)ValueOur read
NVDA3 sells$48MScheduled 10b5-1 sales. Routine; low signal.
SMCICFO sell$2.1MUnscheduled — first open-market sale in 14 months. Worth a look.
SOFICEO buy$500KOpen-market buy on weakness. Insiders buying their own dip.

Dividend & tax lens Pro

What each holding pays, when, and which account it should live in.
HoldingYieldNext ex-divBelongs in
SCHD3.4%Sep 25Either — dividends are qualified
BND4.1%Aug 01IRA/401k — interest is taxed as income
VXUS2.9%Sep 18Taxable — you lose the foreign tax credit in an IRA
VOO1.3%Sep 27Either
Asset location is the rare free lunch nobody eats: same investments, arranged tax-efficiently.

Stress test Pro

How would this portfolio have ridden through history's worst stretches? Pick a crisis.

New-money allocator Pro

This month's contribution, pointed at whatever is furthest below target — rebalancing without selling anything.

Advisor second opinion Pro

Paste the portfolio an advisor proposed. We'll audit the fees and overlap before you sign anything.

Tax-loss harvesting scanner Pro

Positions sitting below cost basis, with like-but-not-identical swaps that keep your exposure and bank the loss. Sample data.
LotCost basisValue nowHarvestable lossSwap intoWatch out
VXUS (Mar '26 lot)$14,200$12,850−$1,350IXUS — different index, same jobClear — no purchases in 30 days
VNQ (Jan '26 lot)$6,000$5,320−$680SCHH — REIT twin, 0.07%Clear
SMCI (May '26 lot)$3,100$2,240−$860SMH — keeps semi exposureWash-sale risk — you bought SMCI 12 days ago
Harvesting ~$2,030 offsets gains (or up to $3,000 of income) this tax year — roughly $450 back at a 22% bracket, for portfolio exposure you kept anyway. Wash-sale rule: don't rebuy the identical security within 30 days, either direction.
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Field Notes

Short essays on owning things twice

What we've learned from analyzing portfolios that all look suspiciously alike.

Portfolio of the Week

u/quietcompounder was 61% tech and had no idea

Twelve holdings, four brokerages, a spreadsheet with color-coding — and underneath it all, one enormous bet on semiconductors. This week's public dissection: what the look-through showed, the three trades that fixed it, and the $61,000 fee difference over 25 years.

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June 24, 2026

VOO, SPY, and IVV walk into a portfolio. They are the same fund.

Three tickers, three fund companies, one index. The only real difference is the fee — and one of them charges triple. A short field guide to the most common redundancy in retail portfolios.

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June 17, 2026

Your "diversified" tech portfolio is one trade

AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, QQQ, and XLK feel like five decisions. They're one decision, made five times, with correlations north of 0.85. What look-through concentration actually means for drawdowns.

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June 10, 2026

The 0.06% difference that costs $18,000

Expense ratios look like rounding errors. Compounded over thirty years of contributions, they're a car. How to audit what your funds charge and swap the expensive ones without triggering taxes.

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Honest answers

Is this financial advice? No. Overlap is an analytics tool — it shows you what you own and what it costs. What you do about it is between you, your circumstances, and possibly a fiduciary advisor.

Do you sell my data? There is no data to sell. Free-tier analysis runs entirely in your browser; we never see your holdings.

Why so cheap? Because the math isn't expensive, and neither is honesty. We'd rather have 10,000 subscribers who trust us than 100 paying hedge-fund prices.

Overlap

Educational analytics, not investment advice. Fund data is approximate sample data in this preview; the production build uses live sources. Past performance guarantees nothing, as you know.

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