That is, A is flexible (a weaker condition than commutativity). If a unity element is adjoined to A in the usual fashion, then a necessary and sufficient condition that (2) be satisfied in the extended algebra is that both (2) and (3) be satisfied in A. We define a noncommutative Jordan algebra A over an arbitrary field F to be an algebra satisfying (1) and (4). These algebras include the best-known nonassociative algebras (Jordan, alternative, quasiassociative, and-trivially-Lie algebras). In 1948 they were studied briefly by A. A. Albert in [1, pp. 574-575],2 but the assumptions (1) and (4) seemed to him inadequate to yield a satisfactory theory, and he restricted his attention to a less general class of algebras which he called standard. In this paper, using Albert's method of traceadmissibility3 and his results for trace-admissible algebras, we give a