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.
Answer: No, the issuer would have to wait until four weeks after its securities began to trade in order to claim the safe harbor. This is because Rule 10b-18's volume condition is predicated upon trading in the common stock for four full calendar weeks preceding the week in which the purchase is to be effected.