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 wash sale rule is also triggered if one person sells an investment at a loss and that person's spouse or a corporation controlled by him buys the same investment within the wash sale time period. The wash sale time period is 61 days â Day X plus 30 days preceding that date and 30 days after that date.