Relief Rally

You had a Big Gulp. And then another. And then you got into 405 traffic outside of LA at 4:45 pm on a Friday. Bad idea. But you made it. And about 4 minutes later, you had a relief rally, which is totally different than the stock market application.

In fact, a relief rally (See: Rally), just means that stocks...bounce. Like, they'd been hammered from $28 to $25 to $22 on threats of government regulation and a patent lawsuit and of course, China. But then it turns out that the gov decided not to regulate the company. Boom, up 2 bucks. And then the patent suit was dropped. Boom, up 3 bucks. And then China came out with a newspaper announcement saying "We are not Silicon Valley Intellectual Property thieves." But...no boom. The stock didn't rally off of that news, because nobody believed it. Relief rallies can only go so far.