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 avoided because 12/22 is more than 30 days after 11/21. There may be a much-less-expensive way to achieve essentially the same goal. Try to buy a cheap call option on the stock you want to sell for a 2011 tax loss. Then wait more than 30 days to sell the stock.