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.
Wash Sale. A wash sale is the sale and repurchase of the same securities within 30 days. Normally, if you sell shares for a loss, you treat it as a capital gains loss, which offsets capital gains and up to $3,000 of normal income in a given tax year. You can even carry unused capital losses forward to future tax years.