You don't have a choice in how the losses are applied this year. Short term losses are netted against short term gains and the same for long term gains and losses and then the two are netted against each other. When you do next year's tax return, you can change the amount of the loss carryover to eliminate the losses that are no longer deductible, but you can't do anything about that on this year's tax return.
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