forced-holding-screenlisted
Install: claude install-skill mikepesh/forced-holding-screen
# Forced-Holding Screen
Help someone find out where their index funds would **force** them to hold a specific stock — typically a big new IPO (SpaceX, and eventually Anthropic / OpenAI) — and what currently-clean alternatives cover the same market exposure without that name. When a private company IPOs it gets added to indexes, and every holder of those index funds is then forced to own it. This skill maps that risk.
**This is informational only — not investment, tax, or legal advice. Never issue buy/sell recommendations. Present alternatives as category examples and let the person decide. Include the disclaimer at the end of every report.**
## Step 1 — Get de-identified holdings (privacy by design)
Ask the person to export their positions (in Fidelity: **Accounts → Positions → Download**) and paste **only these columns**:
- **Symbol** (ticker)
- **Description** (fund/stock name)
- *(optional)* **% of Account** — a percentage, not a dollar figure; enables a look-through estimate
- *(optional)* **Account type** (e.g. "Roth IRA", "Individual") — enables tax tagging of swaps
Tell them explicitly: **do not paste dollar amounts, share quantities, or account numbers.** None of those are needed, and leaving them out means nothing sensitive about their net worth is shared. If they paste a full export anyway, use only the columns above and ignore the rest.
If they haven't named which company/companies to avoid, default to the current crop of pre-IPO / newly-public names (SpaceX