In a previous article I talked about how important it is to stretch the psoas muscle. This can cause many complications including back pain. To recap, most people have tight and shortened psoas muscles. The common activity of sitting causes our psoas to be consistantly shortened for extended periods of time.
The sale on March 31 is a wash sale. The wash sale period for any sale at a loss consists of 61 days: the day of the sale, the 30 days before the sale and the 30 days after the sale. (These are calendar days, not trading days.
The IRS created the 'wash sale' rule to prevent investors from recognizing artificial losses by first selling a security for a loss and then repurchasing the same security within a short period of time. A wash sale is a double transaction on 'substantially similar' securities in a 61-day window. The 61 days includes the date of the trade plus 30 days before and 30 days after.